Two-tiered Figural Stool

Bamana or Malinke people, Mali, late 19th/early 20th c.

Carved wood

Ex–English collection, UK

23.25" h x 9.5" w x 10” d (59.06 x 24. 13 x 25.4 cm)

Price: $7,500

 
 

For a single-tiered stool possibly by the same hand, see Eliot Elisofon's stool in Davidson (1969: 162). As far as I know, this is the only double-tiered stool of this type in existence.

REFERENCES

Davidson, Basil. African Kingdoms. New York, NY: Time-Life Books, 1969, pp. 162, 187.