Female pair of figures
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77th tribal art auctionFemale pair of figures
Cameroon, Bangwa
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Austrian Private Collection, Vienna | H: 28 und 11.6 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
wood, brown patina, traces of black paint, with tapering knees rising from short legs, supporting stocky trunks with short arms, both hands incised, crowned by pear-shaped heads with round cheeks and castanet-eyes, dam., minor missing parts (nose, chin, foot tips), cracks, traces of insect caused damage (backside), rep. (right foot of one of the figures), abrasion, ;
presumaby depicting two pregnant women.
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 2008, p. 195