Piano stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1810
Materials
Ebonised wood, parcel-gilding, wool, silk, canvas, brass
Measurements
485 x 315 x 317 mm
Place of origin
England
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533038
Summary
Embroidered, ebonized wooden music stool. The square, adjustable, top is upholstered in wool, embroidered with a mouse amongst a strawberry plant, and to the edge with a garland of red and white flowers with green leaves. Worked in both gros- and petit-point and fixed with brass studs. The base has a short turned shaft and three square - section down swept legs, decorated with gilt lines and mounted with paw and acanthus-cast brass caps. -- Possibly embroidered by Mary Elizabeth Lucy (d. 1889).
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.