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Royal stool

Stylised blue stool in the shape of a cat like animal

Bali Kingdom, Grassfields, Cameroon, 1916
Accession Number 7.3.1925.1

From 1884, Cameroon had been a German protectorate but during the 1914-18 World War it was divided between the British and French. This royal leopard stool belonged to the Fon or ‘King’ of the Bali kingdom. In 1916 he gave it to King George V as a diplomatic gift.