Ceramics CIMs 11121408

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CeramicsCIMs 11/12-14/08

• Stool (c 1860) Asante, Akan

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What is this and what do you think it was used
for?
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About the Artist and the work of art.

• The stool has special significance in the Asante
  culture. According to a sacred legend, Komfo, a
  priest and adviser to the eighteenth-century King
  Tutu, received a golden stool from heaven. This
  stool later was given to the Asante people as a
  symbol of their power. The so-called Golden
  Stool frequently appears in Asante art. When an
  English colonial official demanded that it be
  given to him in 1900, the Asante people staged a
  rebellion. The Englishman did not understand
  that the Golden Stool was no mere piece of
  furniture- it symbolized the soul of the Asante.

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Stool, Asante, Akan
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• CIM 11/13/8
• How is this stool different from an ordinary
  stool? Who probably owned it originally?
• CIM 11/14/8
• How important would you say that the principle of
  repetition is in the stools design?
• How does the use of symmetry in the design of
  this stool add to its expresiveness?