EAST AFRICA, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER

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A SWAHILI BONE-INLAID HIGH BACKED CHAIR (KITI CHA ENZI)
EAST AFRICA, 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
The hardwood chair with high back, wide arms and foot rest, the surfaces with caned panels, the top and upper edges with bone-inlaid decoration
48.¼ in. (123 cm.) high; 29.½ in. (75 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

A similar armchair with provenance dating back to the nineteenth century is in the Peabody Essex Museum and is tentatively attributed by Amin Jaffer to seventeenth century Mombasa (A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon: a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, London, 2001, fig. 43 p. 115).

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