Card/Transcription No.: 378-1

No. 378. Footstool (of Faldstool No. 351).

POSITION:
Wedged between bedstead No. 377 and shields No. 379, south end of
chamber. (See photos 1136, 1141, 1149 and 1150).

DIMENSIONS:
58.7 x 32.0 x 7.7 cms.

DESCRIPTION:
Made of a (?) wood and veneered with ebony, ivory, faience, glass
and natural stone (semi-translucent calcite) ornament.
The dresses of the captive gilt and chased with ornament. The
heads, faces and exposed parts of the bodies & limbs of the
Asiatic captives of a dark-brown wood (? cedar); their
headdresses of ebony. In contradistinction the exposed parts of
the Negroid types, their heads, bodies & limbs and headdresses,
are of ebony. The background is inlaid of pieces of lapis and
dark-blue faience - it would appear that the artisan who made it
had not sufficient of the one colour glaze.