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A blue and white garden stool decorated with floral patterns. Square and oval pieces are cut from the sides.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Garden Stool
1830 – 1880
Gift of Miss C. Irene Hayner in memory of Adah V. Morris
1973/2.10
This garden stool is decorated with motifs of birds and flowers of the four seasons, in a reserve white against a deep cobalt blue.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Garden Stool
1880 – 1910
Museum purchase made possible by a gift of Sarah and Otto Graf
1991/2.59
With tripod legs.
Tanzanian (Tanzanian)
Stool
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.662
A large fabric ottoman with two main colors, beige and maroon. Over the top of the fabric is a blue embroidered design of a woman's profile and upper body. Has a large green tag attached to the bottom.
Hella Jongerius
Bovist ("Lacemaker" model) pouf
2005 – 2013
Museum purchase, with funds from the Bequest of Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe
2013/1.289
This hour-glass shaped stool is supported by two caryatid figures who sit in a pose of lamentation—crouched with head in hands. Scarified patterned abstracted tears spill from their lower eyelids. Brass studs adorn the perimeter of the stool’s seat, base, and figures. Both figures wear strings of black, red and white beads around their necks.
Chokwe (Chokwe (culture or style))
Caryatid stool
1850 – 1899
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.204
This  stool features an elegantly carved standing female caryatid supporting the seat. It exhibits the characteristic hallmarks of a Southern Hemba style, which in turn was strongly influenced by the neighboring Luba. These traits include the broad, rounded forms of the sculpture, the disproportionately large head, the ovoid face with a subdued expression, a wide convex forehead, the brow ridge defined in relief, half-closed eyes, the elongated nose, the narrow mouth with clenched lips, the protruding abdomen with a pointed umbilicus, scarification patterns on the torso, and a multitude of sculpted bracelets upon both wrists.  Also emblematic of Southern Hemba sculptural forms is the elaborate pulled-back chignon hairstyle (<em>kibanda</em>), which forms a cruciform motif in the rear.  The figure also possesses conical breasts, short squat legs, and flat feet. The tips of the figure’s fingers symbolically carry the circular seat.
Hemba (Hemba (culture or style))
Chief's Stool
1915 – 1925
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.224
This is a wooden stool with a circular base and a flat, circular seat. The seat is supported by an openwork design consisting of a circle with eight lines projecting outward. This motif is repeated six times around the stool. 
Cameroon (Cameroonian)
Stool
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.313
With disc support and metal wire.
Kamba (Kamba)
Stool
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.658
With tripod support and metal inlay.
Kamba (Kamba)
Stool
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.659
With tripod legs and brass cross.
Lobi (Lobi)
Stool
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.661
Wooden stool with a rectangular base and a central column supporting a rectangular seat that curves upward at each end. The central column is decorated with open-work designs of triangles and a checkerboard pattern. Surrounding the column are four rectangular posts decorated with triangular projections along the outer edges. 
Asante (Asante)
Stool
20th century
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.356
Circular cushion with multi-colored beadwork. The top is decorated with a large yellow flower surrounded by smaller flowers and vines on a blue background. The edge is outlined with red beads and the date &quot;1946&quot;. The sides are decorated with six alternating faces and yellow and red flowers. Three faces are green and red, while three are blue and yellow.
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Beaded Foot Cushion
1946
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
1997/1.308
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