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Carter No.: 351

Handlist description: Faldstool

Card/Transcription No.: 351-2


351 Continued 2

the natural stone mostly calcite, back with colour in place of carnelian.

It has an ample curved seat fashioned to represent an animal skin. This is made of ebony and inlaid with irregular shaped pieces of ivory to imitate the blotchy markings of a hide like that of the Nubian Goat. The central part of the seat is ornamented with a series of small panels of ivory, which are stained to imitate various piebald hides: these panels are enclosed in a margin of ox-eyes with gold bosses in their centres. The underneath part of the seat is lined with thin red leather upon gesso (now much deteriorated), and attached to the four corners are four imitation limbs of the hide twisted round the upper part of the cross-legs that support the chair. The chair is supported upon rigid cross-legs of camp-stool type: they are carved of ebony and terminate in heads of ducks. These, together with the stretchers and cross-bars, are partially bound with thin sheet gold, the ducks' heads are inlaid with ivory, have inlaid eyes, and their details carved on the surface and stained. The cross-bars are held between the beaks of the birds.

Card no. 351-2 relating to Carter no. 351
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