Stool
Ghana, Ashanti
sold
EUR 400
Size
H: 36 cm
L: 56 cm
H: 14.2 inch
L: 22.0 inch
Description
wood, partly encrusted brown patina, min. dam., minor missing parts, fissures, traces of usage;
stools play an important part for the ritual and ceremonial life at royal courts and for the lives of ordinary people as well. They are very private items, part of the spiritual being of the respective owner; no one would ever take a seat on the stool of another person.