About the Artwork
Stool
19th or 20th century
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African
Asante
Wood with silver
Overall: 12 × 20 3/8 × 11 1/4 inches (30.5 × 51.8 × 28.6 cm)
Furniture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund
1996.59
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Young Robertson Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Leadership and Status Objects.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): pp. 30-31 (fig. 2.4a-b).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Asante, African, Stool, 19th or 20th century, wood with silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, 1996.59.
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