Palace door frame
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
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)