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.
The object Bowl with the object ID 3036550 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 520 achieved a sales price of EUR 250.
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Comparing literature
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Zürich 2008, p. 249, ill. 145