stool
- Museum number
- Af1953,05.1
- Description
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Register 1953:
Composite stool, of carved wood, ornamented with silver repoussé plate.
- Production date
- 1820-1850 (circa?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 41 centimetres
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Width: 59.50 centimetres
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Depth: 30.50 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G25/dc12)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold
2007-2008 Apr-Oct, Bristol, Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Slavery, Abolition and the Making of Modern Britain
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Acquisition notes
- Given by Major Kingsford, through Mrs Dicks, and recorded as 'Given in settlement of a debt to the donor's grandfather about 100 years ago (a Mr. Sadler, of Lloyd's, born in 1788) and therefore possibly dating from the time of the Bowdich Mission (1817).'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1953,05.1
