Tabouret de prestige, avant 1929 ·  Cameroun, Tikar · ID: 3048057

Description

wood, pigments, rest.

The stool is the foremonst prestige object as symbol of royal office.

Coupled with royal icons used as caryatids, the stool explicitly uphold the Fons authority.

In this case, the leopard, which even appears in two forms, with the smaller specimen in symbiosis, representing king and leopard simultaneously. The characteristic dotted fur pattern of the leopard was also transferred to the accompanying figures.

The leopard embodies certain attributes like speediness, survivability and aggressiveness which were transferred on the king.

L’objet Tabouret de prestige, avant 1929 avec l’ID d’objet 3048057 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 96e Vente aux enchères dans 24 avril 2021 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 267 a atteint un prix de vente de 3 500 €.

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