id: 164629
accession number: 2006.138
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Prestige stool (Kuo fo), 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
title: Prestige stool (Kuo fo)
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creation date: possibly 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1899
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creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture: Africa, Central Africa, Cameroon, Bandjoun Kingdom, Bamileke makers
technique: Wood, cotton, plant fiber, glass beads, and indigo
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 51 x 38 x 43 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Language of Beauty in African Art
opening date: 2022-04-03T04:00:00
The Language of Beauty in African Art. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 3-July 31, 2022) https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/language-beauty-african-art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 20, 2022-February 27, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "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).", 'opening_date': '1925-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Pierre Harter, Les Rois sculpteurs, exh. cat. (Paris: RMN, 1993), p. 61.', 'opening_date': '1993-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Jean-Paul Notue & Bianca Triaca, Bandjoun (Milan: 5 Continets, 2005), p. 54.', 'opening_date': '2005-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Bettina von Lintig, Cameroun, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Bernard Dulon, 2006), p. 125-26 (field photo), 127-29 (object as such).', 'opening_date': '2006-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Possibly Fo (King) Fotso I and Fo Fotso II, Bandjoun Kingdom, Cameroon
date: 19th century
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* Harter Pierre. 1986. Arts Ancien Du Cameroun. Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique Noire, p. 282
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Fo Kamga II Joseph (1902-1975; r. 1925-1975), Bandjoun Kingdom, Cameroon possibly by descent from the above
date: by at least 1925-
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possibly Rev. Frank Christol (1884–1979)
date: 1925
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* Pierre Harter (b. 1928) suggested this may have been amongst a group of objects that Christol sold to Ratton. Unpublished/undated text, curatorial file.
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Charles Ratton (1895–1986), Paris, France
date: before 1940 (perhaps earlier) to 1974
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Charles-François Ratton (son of Charles), Paris by gift from the above
date: 1974-?
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* Nouveau Drouot auction house, Arts Primitifs, July 2, 1987. Lot 216, p 39. Note: though listed, this work did not sell at this auction.
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Bernard Dulon, Paris, France
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* Email with Galerie Bernard Dulon, 2/23/2021; CMA Curatorial File.
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Yves Develon
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* Email with Galerie Bernard Dulon, 2/23/2021; CMA Curatorial File.
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Private collection, Paris by purchase from Yves Develon (sold on their behalf by Galerie Bernard Dulon, Paris, France, to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: -2006
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* Email with Galerie Bernard Dulon, 2/23/2021; CMA Curatorial File.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2006-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Biro, Yaëlle. 2018. “The Canon and Its Consequences : The Reception of Bamileke Tsesah Crests.” Tribal Art: 22 (2) No. 87 Spring 2018 Pages 118-131. Fig. 17 (ca. 1925 photograph by Frank Christol)
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Print: Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. "Sitting Pretty." Apollo Magazine, July/August 2023, pp. 60–65
Online: Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. "How a leopard stool from Cameroon got its spots." Apollo Magazine. July 3, 2023.
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url: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/cameroonian-leopard-stool-cleveland-museum-of-art/
Harter, Pierre. Arts anciens du Cameroun. Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique noire, 1986.
page number: p. 280
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Hôtel Drouot. Arts primitifs. 1987.
page number: lot 216
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Musée national des arts africains et océaniens, Louis Perrois, and Henri Marchal. Les rois sculpteurs: art et pouvoir dans le grassland camerounais : legs Pierre Harter. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
page number: p. 61
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Notué, Jean-Paul, and Bianca Triaca. Bandjoun: trésors royaux au Cameroun : Bandjoun, tradition dynamique, création et vie : catalogue du Musée de Bandjoun. Milan: 5 continents, 2005.
page number: p. 54
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Lintig, Bettina von, and Hughes Dubois. Cameroun. [Montreuil]: [Gourcuff Gradenigo Paris], 2006.
page number: pp. 127-29, 168-69
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Annual Report, July 1, 2006--July 30, 2007. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page number: pp. 30-31
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Petridis, Constantine, "King Kamga's Travel Stool", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 05, May/June 2007.
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 6-7
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2007-05/page/n5
Petridis, Constantine. “New Acquisitions of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” African Arts 44, no. 1 (2011).
page number: pp. 52-67, fig. 8, note 12
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41330706
Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 56 - 57
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Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: 244-5
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Lintig, Bettina von. 2014. "A Grasslands Beaded Leopard Skin." Tribal Art vol. 18:3, no. 72 (summer).
page number: pp. 108-117, fig. 6
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Rondeau, James, Constantijn Petridis, Yaëlle Biro, Herbert M. Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Wilfried Van Damme, and Susan Mullin Vogel. The language of beauty in African art. 2022.
page number: cat. no. 22, pp. 52, 316
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Petridis, Constantine. 2022. "The Language of Beauty in African Art." Tribal Art vol. 26:4, no. 105 (autumn).
page number: pp. 70-79 [reproduced as Fig. 6 on p. 73
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"The Language of Beauty in African Art." Kimbell Art Museum Members' Guide (March–September 2022): 2-7.
page number: Reproduced: P. 3.
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