Large prestige stool with leopard ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3044194

Description

wood, pigments,
Objects of such powerful expressivity influenced modern artists such as Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in their works.

The stool is the foremost prestige object as symbol of royal office.

Coupled with royal icons used as caryatids, the stool explicitly upholds the Fon’s authority. 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 leopard with the object ID 3044194 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 195 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.

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Comparing literature

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 105 Grisebach, Lucius, Kirchner und die Kunst Kameruns, Zürich 2008

Publications

AHDRC: 0153591