TAA i.3.7.1

NO.351.

          This faldstool while retaining its folding-shape is rigid

and has acquired a back. Its ample curved seat, fashioned in the

semblance of flexible leather, is made of ebony inlaid with irregu-

lar shaped pieces of ivory imitating the motley markings of a pie-

bald hide, the centre, however, is ornamented with a series of small

rectangular panels of ivory stained tp/<o> represent various other pie-

bald hides as well as that/<including that> of the cheetah. The under surface of

the seat is lined with red leather (upon gesso), and attached to the

corners are four imitation limbs of a hide twisted round the legs

of the chair. The chair is supported by cross-legs of folding –

stool type, rigid, of ebony carved and inlaid in the shape of heads

of geese. These cross-legs and their stretchers are partially b^sic

bound with thin sheet gold. Between the stretchers and the lower

foot-bars is an openwork gilt wood ornament, symbolizing the union

of the “Two lands”, the greater part of which was wrenched away by

the dynastic tomb-robbers. The upright slightly curved back-panel

of the chair, is partially covered with gold and inlaid with faience,

glass and natural stones. The design incorporates the Aten disc

and names, a frieze of solar-uraeii^sic, the prenomen and nomen of the

king, and the Nekhebet vulture holding shen-symbols and single

ostrich-feather fans. Below is a series of rails and stiles en-

closing ivory and ebony panels inscribed with various designations

of the king: an ornament largely inspired by the recessed panel-

ling common to the outer walls of earlier and contemporaneous

buildings, and actually copied on the lower part of the design here.