Stool "umele" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3052080
Prix d'appel
250 €
Prix d'Estimation
500 €
Provenance
Kuhlmann & Struck, Hamburg, GermanyWerner & Lotte Krause, Hamburg, Germany (1996)
Description
wood, encrusted patina, collection no. “742”
One-piece stools carved out of a rectangular piece of wood could be carried by the handle that had been carved into them. They were not intended for general, everyday use, but were reserved for the elders or heads of families and important chiefs.
Littérature comparée
Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, p. 173, ill. 33