Prestige stool, before 1929 · Cameroon, Tikar · ID: 3048057
sold
EUR 3,500
Size
H: 42 cm
D: 29,5 cm
H: 16.5 inch
D: 11.6 inch
Description
wood, pigments, rest.
The stool is the foremonst prestige object as symbol of royal office.
Coupled with royal icons used as caryatids, the stool explicitly uphold the Fons authority.
In this case, the leopard, which even appears in two forms, with the smaller specimen in symbiosis, representing king and leopard simultaneously. The characteristic dotted fur pattern of the leopard was also transferred to the accompanying figures.
The leopard embodies certain attributes like speediness, survivability and aggressiveness which were transferred on the king.