Prestige stool (Kuo)
possibly 1800s
Maker Unknown
African Art
Prestige stool (Kuo), possibly 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Bandjoun Kingdom, Bamileke makers. Wood, cotton, plant fiber, glass beads, and indigo; overall: 51 x 38 x 43 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2006.138 In the Cameroon Grassfields region of central Africa, powerful animal imagery was associated with the wealth and prestige of rulers. This stool incorporates a ferocious leopard. It was once owned by the rulers (fon) of the Bandjoun Kingdom, including Fon Kamga II Joseph (r. 1925–75).
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Formatted Medium
- Wood, cotton, plant fiber, glass beads, and indigo
- Dimensions
- Overall: 51 x 38 x 43 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
- Departments
- African Art
- Accession Number
- 2006.138
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Language of Beauty in African Art, Pierre Harter, Arts anciens du Cameroun (Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1986), p. 280 (reproduces the field-photograph Father Frank Christol made in 1925, the original of which is preserved in the archives of the Musée de l'Homme, Paris).<br>Pierre Harter, Les Rois sculpteurs, exh. cat. (Paris: RMN, 1993), p. 61.<br>Jean-Paul Notue & Bianca Triaca, Bandjoun (Milan: 5 Continets, 2005), p. 54.<br>Bettina von Lintig, Cameroun, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Bernard Dulon, 2006), p. 125-26 (field photo), 127-29 (object as such).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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