Caryatid stool · Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki · ID: 3025044
sold
EUR 1,600
Provenance
Hans Himmelheber, Heidelberg, GermanyAmerican Private Collection
Size
H: 42,5 cm
H: 16.7 inch
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.
Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 107, ill. 29 Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Zürich 2008, p. 226