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Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551
Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 2/8 Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 3/8 Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 4/8 Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 5/8 Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 6/8 Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 7/8 Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes, Prairie Camerounaise, Taille: H: 21 cm / 62,5 cm (with shaft), ID: 3045551 - 8/8
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Pipe royale et deux têtes de pipes ·  Prairie Camerounaise · ID: 3045551

Vendu 2 900 €
Provenance
Jürgen Peters, Nürnberg, Germany

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.

Littérature comparée

Kahan, Leonard et .al., A Cameroon World, New York 2007, p. 109

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