Long stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1835
Materials
Carved, turned and joined oak, wool, canvas
Measurements
42 cm (Height) x 49 cm (Depth); 84 cm (Length)
Place of origin
England
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533036
Summary
An oak long stool, English, early Victorian, circa 1835, part of a set with NT 533016. The seat cover worked in gros-point needlework in brown, cream, pink and green wools in a pattern of sprays of roses within a geometric border, and above moulded friezes. Raised on four ball-turned legs, their upper blocks carved with a moulded boss, their octagonal lower blocks with lozenge carvings, joined by an 'H'-shaped ball-turned stretcher and on ball feet. On four metal castors. -- The lozenge carvings to the lower blocks of this stool, and its shorter companion stool NT 533016, are reminiscent of the lozenge carvings to the Fonthill Abbey tables which were purchased by George Hammond Lucy (d. 1845) at the Fonthill Abbey Sale in 1823 (Lots 477 - 478). It is possible, therefore, that these stools were commissioned shortly afterwards to complement the tables, and were possibly made by Thomas Bott who supplied twenty-four carved oak dining chairs in December 1837 NT 532969.1 - .24.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.