Black pottery vessel [.1], ornamental bowl on an openwork stand with looped handle, and circular lid with fruit stalk handle [.2]. [JMC 12/11/2019]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black pottery vessel [.1], ornamental bowl on an openwork stand with looped handle, and circular lid with fruit stalk handle [.2]. [JMC 12/11/2019]
Long description: Black pottery vessel [.1], oval bowl with ornamental projection in place of spout and loop handle capped with grooved oval thumb rest. Below the rim is a relief frieze of a row of squatting headless figures joined at their elbows and knees. There is an openwork stand of seven spider leg feet on disc base. The handle is flaking, and the rim is missing two chips. A circular concave-convex lid with fruit stalk handle [.2] is associated with this object, but is not located with it. [MOBB [OPS move] 17/02/2016]
Geographical reference: Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon; Bamenda
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions: Height: max 185 mm, Width: max 195 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.202 Other numbers: 691

Search