Lot: 334

83rd Tribal Art Auction

Mask

Cameroon Grassfields, Kom

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (1976) H: 14.6 inch sold

wood, shiny dark brown patina, kaolin, red pigment remains, typical facial features with smiling mouth and disc-shaped flattened beard, diadem-shaped headdress with jagged hairline and incised decro (two lizards), min. dam., small missing parts, cracks, slight traces of abrasion


Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, P15