Bowl · Prairie Camerounaise, Bafum · ID: 3036550
Vendu
250 €
Description
wood, encrusted dark brown patina, ring-shaped base, carved with a seated caryatid figure, supporting the actual bowl with decorated rim, rep. (several breakages), cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
a typical bowl used by men during ritual occasions for the “sauce,” i.e. meat or fish dish with palm oil.
Littérature comparée
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Zürich 2008, p. 249, ill. 145