Wine Vase
Tikar · Cameroon
Reference: RCPT-15
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- Height
- 55 cm
- Material
- Pumpkin, cauris, resin and brass
Beautifully decorated pumpkin with embroidered brass figures and bands of resin with cauris forming drawings. The cap of the vessel is also brass. The pumpkin is…
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Full original description
Beautifully decorated pumpkin with embroidered brass figures and bands of resin with cauris forming drawings. The cap of the vessel is also brass. The pumpkin is settled on a base of braided and equally decorated vegetable fibers. These vessels are used as ornament but also in the royal courts or in the homes of the notables to offer palm or millet wine to brand guests. It's a prestigious vessel.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Years 60
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Cameroon. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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