Lot: 271

47th tribal art auction

Prestige bowl

Cameroon

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
H: 9.3 inch sold

wood, dark, partly encrusted patina, circular base, open worked spider motif, the actual vessel decorated with rhomb-shaped ornaments;
probably this bowl was used to keep kola nuts.


Northern, Tamara, Expressions of Cameroon art, p. 36, ill. 24