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Important SEAT featuring a CARIATIDE COUPLE
Ashanti culture, Ghana
First half of the 20th century
Wood
H .: 47; L .: 58; Thickness: 23 cm
(old accident and old traces of wood-boring insects)
An important light wood seat carved with a caryatid couple standing upright and supporting the curved ends of their heads and arms with the tops of their heads. The two anthropomorphic figures are sculpted in a very stylized manner: the elbows and knees are angular, the feet in very slight relief rest on a rectangular base. The woman has a conical chest, a thong and wears two bracelets on the wrists. The man's nipples and umbilicus are cut in three identical circles.
Ref: N92AQCLSBD