This seventeenth-century bronze gold weight depicts an Akan royal stool. Cast by Akan goldsmiths, small gold weights (mrammou) such as this were used to weigh gold dust - the currency of the Akan and potent symbol of kra (life-force) - between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Estimated Period: 17th/18th Century
Ex Seward Kennedy Collection, UK
W: 7cm
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