Long stool
Mary Elizabeth Lucy (1803 - 1890)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1835
Materials
Carved, turned and joined oak, wool, canvas, brass and ceramic castors
Measurements
53 cm (Height) x 46 cm (Depth); 139 cm (Length)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533035
Summary
A long oak stool, English, early Victorian, circa 1835. The seat is covered in pink plush, and with two strips of gros-point woollen needlework of red and white flowers and leaves, worked by Mary Elizabeth Lucy (d. 1889). Red fringe around the seat featuring protruding pom poms. The stool of six spiral-turned legs with lower blocks carved with flowerheads in sunken bosses, joined by spiral-turned stretchers and with turned feet with brown ceramic castors. Part of a set with NT 533016.
Makers and roles
Mary Elizabeth Lucy (1803 - 1890) , needleworker