Published & Exhibited: Sotheby’s, Paris, “Collection Paolo Morigi. Important Art Africain”, 6 June 2005. Lot 186. Est. € 4.000-7.000 / Note: This Mboko figure is the only one registered in the AHDRC (0029875) belonging to the Kaonde peoples, a Luba group living in the North of Zambia, border to RDC. There is a caryatid stool made by the same sculptor (AHDRC number 0031996) that was auctioned by Christie’s in 1978 and by Sotheby’s in 1989 that was part of Marcia & Irwin Hersey collection (New York, USA)