Bowl · Cameroon Grassfields, Bafum · ID: 3036550
sold
EUR 250
Size
H: 19 cm
D: 16,5 cm
H: 7.5 inch
D: 6.5 inch
Description
wood, encrusted dark brown patina, ring-shaped base, carved with a seated caryatid figure, supporting the actual bowl with decorated rim, rep. (several breakages), cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
a typical bowl used by men during ritual occasions for the “sauce,” i.e. meat or fish dish with palm oil.
Comparing literature
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Zürich 2008, p. 249, ill. 145