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Lot 1191
A 19th century music stool, with circular revolving height adjustable upholstered seat, raised on turned, tapered and swept legs, united by a platform stretcher with central through thread, simulated rosewood finish, together with an Edwardian mahogany freestanding folding cake stand with three circular tiers and swept supports (2)
Lot 82
A late 19th century ceramic garden seat in the oriental manner with transfer printed trailing poppy decoration and indistinct impressed mark to base, 48cm tall approx. (af) together with further mainly 19th century ceramics including a set of twelve 19th century Wedgwood green glazed majolica leaf moulded dessert plates, four further majolica leaf plates, an Amhurst Japan footed bowl, 23.5cm diameter, a large gaudy type punch bowl, 30cm diameter, etc (a collection)
Lot 1147
A pair of Georgian country made Chippendale style dining chairs with pierced gothic tracery vase shaped splats over solid seats raised on square cut and moulded supports, together with a further pair of 19th century mahogany bar back chairs with solid seats raised on turned forelegs, a Georgian open elbow chair, with pierced comb splat over a generous upholstered seat and shaped forelegs and a similar single chair (6)
Lot 418
LUBA CARYATID STOOL, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO This stool embodies all of the qualities of a royal Luba stool, the figure has carved wooden conical nails at the back of her coiffure in place of tacks, she has a crossshaped Kaposhi hairstyle, once reserved for Luba chiefs and their wives. The female figure with her curvilinear legs symbolises the importance of women in Luba society, as it was women who brought new life and as a result held power and spiritual secrets. Luba objects were usually owned by Luba male nobility and this stool was always a symbolic seat of power rather than a place to sit, village repair 36cm high PROVENANCEWalter Dehne, an employee of Woermann-Linie, Hamburg, 1898"Stools are among the most important symbols of Luba kingship, as they are for many African peoples. Not only is the Luba king’s palace referred to as a “seat of power", but seating is a metaphor for the many levels and layers of hierarchy that characterize Luba royal prerogatives. There are two principal types of Luba stools. Almost all of those that have entered Western collections are caryatid stools, supported by single or occasionally double female figures. Stools are such potent emblems that they are often kept secretly in a different village from their possessor’s home, to diminish the possibility of their theft or desecration.As the receptacle for a king’s spirit, it is not primarily a functional seat as such. The infrequency with which these stools are viewed reinforces the idea that they are intended not for human eyes (at least not primarily), but for those of the spirit world”Roberts, M.N. and Roberts, A. F., 1996. Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History, Prestel, Munich
Lot 373
NORTHERN RHODESIA TONGA STOOL, ZAMBIA Typical Tonga stool with slightly indented seat, central support with X’s, in two columns one in a frame, resting on half domed base, double angled handle, good patina, distressed 16cm high PROVENANCEPROVENANCE Clayton Holliday Collection Label “Found in 1957 in a village near Pinazanazongwa, Northern Rhodesia”
Lot 396
A SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED AND INLAID CARLTON HOUSE DESK BY MAPLE AND CO LTD, LATE 19TH CENTURY The D-shaped top with inlaid tooled leather writing surface surmounted by doors and drawers, in sizes,below a pierced brass gallery, fanked by hinged covers enclosing compartments in sizes, a central friezedrawer below fanked by two pairs of short drawers, on tapering square-section legs, on spade feet, oncastors 99cm high, 137cm wide, 65cm deep; and An Edwardian Mahogany Chair, the shaped top rail centredby a patera, pierced and shaped splat, plain bottom rail, stuff-over seat, on turned tapering legs. (2) (2)
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