An unusual Tchokwe (Chokwe) chair, Angola, the backrest carved as a seated man with complete body scarifications, a chest plate on his torso continuing as a band around his back, the seat with a strip of sheet brass to the front and decorated with brass studs, on four female caryatids supports on a square base, 66.5cm high, 34cm wide

The Von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection