Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes
Prairie Camerounaise
Vendu
2 900 €
Provenance
Jürgen Peters, Nürnberg, GermanyTaille
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.