Such chairs, known as "sella," were used as status symbols and markers of command during the Etruscan and early Roman periods. By the Roman Republican and Imperial periods, the folding chair, known as the "Curulian chair," together with the fasces, constituted essential insignia of consuls, censors, praetors, and aediles. This type is an iron field chair, referred to as "sella castrensis" or a "camp stool," that was customarily used by military authority - usually reserved for the commanders in the field. (eroded)

w. 46,2 h. 35,5 and d. 46,7 cm.

Provenance: Gallery Stormbroek, 2002. Private Dutch collection, Wassenaar.