λAn Akan stool Ghana ivory

λAn Akan stool

Ghana

ivory, with a two part curved seat with pierced squares and applied lifts, on a central pierced cylindrical support with four further having jagged outer edges, with an incised chevron border platform and a rectangular base, late 19th / early 20th century,

18cm high, 28.5cm wide.

Provenance

Squadron Leader Bowes-Lyon, Agincourt House, Dartmouth, late 1960's.

cf. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, accession number 97.1360.