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AN ASHANTI FLYWHISK

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AN ASHANTI FLYWHISK
The elephant tail hair with threaded amber and clear glass beads, the handle with applied panels of yellow metal with embossed ornament, a band of plaited yellow and white metal binding above the finial
20in. (51cm.) long

來源

Lt. F. Cowan, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

拍品專文

When offered for sale by a descendant of Lt. Cowan (Christie's, 11 December 1974), it was amongst items said to have been taken from the dressingroom of the Asantehene in Kumasi, during Sir Garnet Wolseley's punitive expedition of 1874.