Auction 104 After sale
Zemanek-Münster

Palace door frame

Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
sold EUR 800
Provenance
Emerson Woelfer, Los Angeles, USA
Size
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)


Comparing literature

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 79

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