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Title: Folk Art chair
Post by: greenacres on March 02, 2018, 03:58:30 pm

My friend purchased this chair. We both like it. She wanted your thoughts on it.

Title: Re: Folk Art chair
Post by: Rauville on March 02, 2018, 06:41:11 pm

Here's one...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-AFRICAN-LIBERIA-BIRTHING-CARVED-HARD-WOOD-CHAIR-2-PIECE-STURDY/262990530483?hash=item3d3b7507b3:g:kiQAAOSwtGlZHJ4z (https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-AFRICAN-LIBERIA-BIRTHING-CARVED-HARD-WOOD-CHAIR-2-PIECE-STURDY/262990530483?hash=item3d3b7507b3:g:kiQAAOSwtGlZHJ4z)

Title: Re: Folk Art chair
Post by: mart on March 02, 2018, 07:32:08 pm

Shows the women pounding cassava which is one of the staple foods !!

Title: Re: Folk Art chair
Post by: KC on March 05, 2018, 05:17:38 pm

My best friend goes to Africa quite often on missions trips and has brought back a few of these over the years!  Known as a Palaver chair and often touted as a kings chair.

Nice scene on it!

These are made and sold currently.  Many can be "aged" so hard to tell age from pictures.  You would know better seeing it in person.