Figure debout "mu po"
Prairie Camerounaise, Bamiléké
Vendu
1 500 €
Provenance
Clement F. Egerton, England, collected in situ (1935)Christie’s, London, 16 October 1979, lot 112
Christie’s, London, 24 March 1988, lot 213
Bonhams, London, 21 August 2000, lot 94
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5 March 2011, lot 294
Taille
H: 34,5 cm
H: 13.6 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina overall with some glossy areas, slightly dam., cracks, minor missing part (left foot tip), wooden base.
Egerton spent several months in Cameroon as a guest of King N’jike II of Bangangte. In 1938 Egerton published a record of his stay, where he wrote: “People came from the country round about with things they hoped to sell to me, stools, masks, pipes and little figures used by sorcerers, of which I am making a collection”. Finally he acquired sixteen figures. His daughter, Mrs Morris Egerton Adams sold this collection in London at Christie’s in 1979.
Littérature comparée
F. Clement C. Egerton, "African Majesty, A Record of Refuge in the Court of the King of Bangangte in the French Cameroons", London 1938Publications
AHDRC: 0010594