Long stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1745 (the stool; velvet 19th century; embroidery 17th century)
Materials
Carved mahogany, the velvet 19th century, the silk embroidery 17th century
Measurements
51 x 130 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127904.2
Summary
A long, or 'double' stool, one of a set of eight carved mahogany and upholstered stools, English, circa 1745, the set comprising two long or double stools, a pair of stools, and four stools of various sizes, all with drop-in seats upholstered in later 19th century brown velvet with appliqué embroidered slips of the 17th century, which matches that on the set of twenty-seven armchairs, backstools and stools [NT 1127776.1 - 27] commissioned circa 1845 by the 6th Duke of Devonshire. This double stool with small aprons to each frieze carved in low relief, raised on six acanthus-carved cabriole legs terminating in ball and claw feet.
Provenance
Carved mahogany, the velvet 19th century, the silk embroidery 17th century By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.
References
Edwards, Ralph, 1894-1977 shorter dictionary of English furniture : 1964., one of the set illustrated p. 506, Figure 40