Caryatid stool ·  Prairie Camerounaise, Babanki · ID: 3025044

Description

wood, reddish brown patina with traces of black paint, ring-shaped base, carved with two wrestling figures, clinching each other firmly, with their heads supporting a massive circular seat on top, slightly dam., rep. (base), cracks (body of one figure, seat);
style of the artist Fonchu Aseh in Babanki Tungo.

Littérature comparée

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 107, ill. 29 Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Zürich 2008, p. 226