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.