JAG 1987-3-113

Double head-rest with a box in the centre; carved of one piece of wood, except for the lid of the box. One headrest is 5mm longer and higher than the other. Crossbars are rectangular and decorated on the flattened, and blackened narrow ends with a row of zigzags carved in relief. Two lugs for each headrest -blackened rectangles facing sides. Each has a one rectangular pillar, decorated at front and back with the upper and lower thirds being blackened and the central third having two rounded horizontal pleats. The columns are joined by a cylindrical bar to the central rectangular box with a lid which opens on a pin, and which has a handle in the shape of a fin. Bases are flat ovoids with the edges blackened.