Mask of a dignitary · Cameroon Grassfields · ID: 3024318
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Jack Rosenberg, New York, USASize
H: 48 cm
H: 18.9 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, small remains of red paint, encrusted with clay, expressive in form, bulky head crest with burls, disc-shaped beard, slightly dam., cracks, missing parts at the back of the rim, base
Comparing literature
Germann, Paul, Das plastisch-figürliche Kunstgewerbe im Graslande von Kamerun, o.O., o. J., ill. 3