Palace door frame · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3036623
Sotheby’s, New York, May 15, 2003, lot 49
Description
light brown wood, blackish brown patina, decorated in relief with four male figures arranged on top each other, their heads with deeply hollowed eye sockets and bare teeth reminding of human skulls, min. dam., cracks, small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion;
in almost all Grassfield kingdoms the palace is distinguished by carved pillars supporting the roof overhang, and an ensemble of jambs with lintels and sills framing the entrance of its facade.
The object Palace door frame with the object ID 3036623 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 524 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.
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Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 79