bô y kbolo Wood, copper height 14 1/2in (36.8cm) Provenance Felicia Dialossin/Galerie Argiles, Paris Hubert Goldet Collection, Paris Ricqles, Paris - Collection Hubert Goldet, 30 June 2001, Lot 592 Unidentified Private Collection Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 2001, Lot 80 Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon Finely carved from hard wood in hourglass shape with a series of stylized antelope horns around the center and a copper insert to the top surface; fine dark brown reflective patina. Cf. Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, collection no. 71.1938.18.145, for similar stool with stylized horn iconography around the central column, possibly from the same workshop.