Superb Asante Stool

1622

$469.00

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Asante
ITEM #:
1622
ETHNICITY:
Asante
ORIGIN:
Ghana
MANILLA CURRENCY
Each Asante had a personal Asante stool with designs showing social status, gender, and even political affiliation.

 


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African Art

ITEM NAME:
Asante Stool
ITEM #:
1622
ETHNICITY:
Asante People
ORIGIN:
Ghana
MEDIUM:
Wood.
DIMENSIONS:
19″ Long (48.26 cm) x 9″ Wide (22.8 cm) x 10.5″ Tall (26.7 cm).
CONDITION:
Very Good.


African Art

PROVENANCE:
Private Estate Collection – Florida, USA.


African Art

CATALOGUE NOTE:
Every Asante has a personal, utilitarian stool; there are hundreds of patterns expressing not only the owner’s gender and social status, but also political orientation. Successful component state leaders bequeath their personal stools to the state as part of its regalia passed down to each new ruler, validating his right to his position. New leaders augment the collection. During his life a ruler may have many personal Asante stool whose support the design and decoration express his status and concerns; if he is successful, one of them will be blackened with soot and egg, laid on its side to avoid contamination by hostile spirits, and placed in the stool house on its own throne as a shrine and means of access to the spirit of its former owner after his death.