Prestige stool, before 1929 ·  Cameroon, Tikar · ID: 3048057

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.

The object Prestige stool, before 1929 with the object ID 3048057 was last part of the auction 96th Auction at April 24, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 267 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,500.

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