A COLLECTION OF AFRICAN CARVED EBONY

comprising five vases of similar design, each modelled with bird supports and seven human figures, various sizes (12)

Provenance: Adolphe Cryns (b. 1903, Wetteren – d. 1991) lived and worked in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) as an Operations manager for CITAS shipping from 5 Sep 1924 to 14 Jul 1933, thence by family descent