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Chair · Egypt
Chair or Bed Leg with the God Bes
Maker unknown · Egypt · 1540–1296 BCE
The genial god Bes appears here in the form of a furniture leg. With hands on his pot belly and wearing a short kilt with a long apron, he stands bowlegged on a truncated cone base. He has long, upward sweeping, diagonal eyebrows, large eyes, full cheeks, and rounded ears, and he wears a full beard and mustache. His body is soft and unmuscular. As a household god, Bes figured prominently as a decorative motif both in royal and private dwellings.
— Cleveland Museum of Art, catalogue text
The same form in other collections
The pieces nearest to this one across the eight museums — by form, region and date together, not by keyword.
Royal Chair (Akonkromfi)
Ghana · Probably mid–/late 19th century
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Chair with splayed legs, back rails crowned with carved heads
c. 1650 - c. 1675
Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum
Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)
15th or 16th centuries (textiles); late 15th or early 16th centuries (chair)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Members have built this form
From the Member Gallery — original work, photographed by the people who made it.
