Royal throne stool ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum · ID: 3044834

Description

wood,

The stool is the foremost prestige object as symbol of royal office.

Coupled with royal icons used as caryatids, the stool explicitly upholds the Fon’s authority. The leopard embodies certain attributes like speediness, survivability and aggressiveness which were transferred on the king. So he became the most important royal symbol, like an “alter ego” of the king.

The object Royal throne stool with the object ID 3044834 was part of the auction 98th Auction on March 26, 2022. The object with the lot number 236 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,000 with an asking price of EUR 1,500.

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