Caryatid stool

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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.

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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

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