Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2017
Lot 316
A Benin ceremonial stool agba Nigeria wood with brass tacks
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £1100
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Description

A Benin ceremonial stool agba
Nigeria
wood with brass tacks, carved all over, the top with an Oba, snakes, two attendants and a seated crying woman with a child on her lap, the legs with Portuguese soldiers with flint lock pistols and swords, a drummer and a Benin warrior, animals and birds, the stretchers with masks and mudfish, all panels with carved edges and raised on short nodule feet, early 20th century,
41cm high, 56cm wide.