Large prestige stool ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3043690

Description

wood, brown shiny patina, three leopards (dotted pattern) with anthropomorphic heads as caryatid figures, slightly dam., breakages (ring-shaped base), cracks (seat).
In the Cameroon Grassfields stools are an important part of a chiefs regalias. The leopard embodies certain attributes like speediness, survivability and aggressiveness which were transferred on the king. So he became the most important royal symbol, like an “alter ego” of the king.

The object Large prestige stool with the object ID 3043690 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 346.

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