Seat featuring a caryatid couple ashanti culture, ghana

Important seat featuring a caryatid couple. Ashanti culture, ghana. First half of the twentieth century. Wood. H.: 47; l.: 58; ep.: 23 cm. (ancient accident and ancient traces of wood-boring insects) Important seat in light wood carved by a caryatid couple standing and supporting from the top of their head and arms the seat with curved ends. The two anthropomorphic figures are sculpted in a very stylized way: the elbows and knees are angular, the feet in very slight relief rest on a rectangular base. The woman has a conical chest, a sex mask and wears two bracelets on her wrists. The man has the nipples and umbilicus incised in three identical circles. Text and photos © coridon fcp.