Caryatid stool · R. D. Congo, Songye · ID: 3038418
Langheld was an officer and representative of the German Colonial Government in East Africa and Kamerun from 1891 until 1908.
Description
wood, slightly shiny dark- and reddish brown patina, kaolin, form of the face and mouth Songe characteristic, opening with inserted magical substances (“cryptofetish”), emblem at the seat, slightly dam. (finger of the right hand), small traces of insect caused damage, cracks, rep. (seat on the left and base to the front, narrow wooden splinters accurately reinserted);
the use of such stools was subject to special occacions, such as birth, initiation, marriage, or case of death. They were reserved for a political and spiritual “upper class”, such as chiefs, priests, medicine men, healers and dignitaries. They mainly fullfilled representative and ritual functions.
L’objet Caryatid stool avec l’ID d’objet 3038418 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 79th Tribal Art Auction dans 21 mars 2015. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 489 a atteint un prix de vente de 8 500 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 3 500 €.
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Littérature comparée
Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, ill. 124 f.