Palace door frame · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3031121
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Emerson Woelfer, Los Angeles, USASize
B: 122 cm (door lintel), H: ca. 200 cm
B: 48.0 inch (door lintel), H: ca. 78.7 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, camwood powder, kaolin, wooden boards, the lintel carved with three mask faces flanked by turtles, the jambs show spider and crocodile, arranged in pairs, drilled holes backside for attachment, slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage (above all at the base)
The object Palace door frame with the object ID 3031121 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 288 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.
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Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 79