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Lot 30
92nd Tribal Art Auction

Three figurative pipe bowls

Cameroon Grassfields
sold EUR 2,900
Provenance
Jürgen Peters, Nürnberg, Germany
Size
H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft)
H: 8.3 inch / 24.6 inch (with shaft)

Description

brass, wood, sacking, strands of polychrome glass beads, metal, additionally: two pipe bowls, terracotta with blackish coating, h: 17 cm (each), one of them rep.

Tobacco pipes are considered prestige objects in the Cameroon Grassfields, indicating the rank and title of their individual owner. Such elaborate figurative pipe bowls as the present ones, and above all those made of brass, were reserved for the Fon and the dignitaries alone.

Comparing literature

Kahan, Leonard et .al., A Cameroon World, New York 2007, p. 109
Africa

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