Ornament, furniture

Description

Furniture ornament of gold plate with beaten decoration, probably a centre ornament on a state or ancestral stool: West Africa, Ghana, Ashanti, taken at the capture of Kumasi, 1873 - 1874

Museum reference

A.1875.16.18 K

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Ornament, furniture, Ornament, stool

Production information

Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana, Western Africa

Style / Culture

Asante

Materials

Gold

Physical description

Gold plate with beaten decoration

Associations

Capture of Kumasi
Third Anglo-Asante War, 1873 - 1874

References

Kyerematen, Panoply of Ghana, Praeger, 1964, pp 13, 19, and 88