Caryatid stool ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki · ID: 3025044

Description

wood, reddish brown patina with traces of black paint, ring-shaped base, carved with two wrestling figures, clinching each other firmly, with their heads supporting a massive circular seat on top, slightly dam., rep. (base), cracks (body of one figure, seat);
style of the artist Fonchu Aseh in Babanki Tungo.

The object Caryatid stool with the object ID 3025044 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 401 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600.

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Comparing literature

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 107, ill. 29 Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Zürich 2008, p. 226