Primary Description:
Multicolored non-lead glass; cut, sandblasted, glass assembled with carved and burned wood with applied tin toys. Straight- backed wooden chair with overall patterning of wood burned designs; back consists of gridded framework; (top row): three small rectangular panels, striated pink with white panels flanking solid aqua, facing pink panels, sitting on frame edge are small, non-identical, carved standing figures; (second row) orange panels flanking striated amber and white, each orange panel fronted by three large multicolored glass bead; (third row) solid rectangular panel of opaque green faced with a saw-toothed opaque orange piece which in turn is faced by a lower wooden saw-toothed piece; framework decorated on top edge by gold- leafed "fang-like" additions alternating with small ovoid glass beads; sides have elongated gold-leaf additions and, towards seat, two serrated wood arched "handles", each enclosing a colored tin alligator-shaped "cricket" noise maker; facing entire back and standing on bottom panel frame is a large, carved, nude female figure with outstretched limbs; head has spiked "crown" draped with lengths of small glass beads, two strands of beads also hang from neck, waist, and one band around right knee; body decorated with round inlaid sections of lighter wood; (seat) red background covered with panels of window glass sandblasted on both sides with decorative gridwork enclosing stylized toads, birds, humans and quadrupeds; two wood "pegs" with gold spots sit at front two corners; wood seat frame has series of irregularly projecting dowels; two front legs, each decorated with an applied alligator placed vertically near seat edge; leg "stretchers" consist of three blue, angled dowels with pointed ends and hanging gold-leafed clothespins, one stretcher is a wider, carved, unpainted piece surmounted by a tin alligator; "Keke 86" in relief on front edge, lower right hand corner of glass seat.