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
48 x 69 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127904.3
Summary
A small rectangular 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 small stool with small aprons to each frieze carved in low relief, and raised on four acanthus-carved cabriole legs terminating in ball and claw feet.
Provenance
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