Prestige stool
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Lot: 260
47th tribal art auctionPrestige stool
Cameroon Grassfields
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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H: 15 inch |
650 EUR
plus 23 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance |
wood, brown patina, black paint, ring-shaped base, hollowed seat, four human caryatid figures, min. dam., fine cracks, small missing pieces;
n the Cameroon Grasslands stools are important regalias of the chief.
Dagan, Esther A., Man at Rest, Montreal 1985, p. 46, ill. 121