This dark headrest of hard wood bears a strong ‘family’ resemblance to headrest #7 in the catalog, but the differences are telling. Here, for example, the arc has become more circular, and the middle strut is rectangular rather than column-like. Finely carved incisions embellish both the rectangular ‘neck’ and the rotund ‘body’. The lugs that hang down gracefully from the sleeping platform have also been incised with two horizontal rectangles, constituted by very fine vertical lines. The two chamfered lobes of the base also seem to spread outwards under the load in the same way as the example above. However, the patina on this headrest is much more uniformly dark than is the case in the previous example (No. 7).

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