Stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Mahogany, padouk, holly, silk
Measurements
43 x 58 x 43 cm
Place of origin
England
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 582812.1
Summary
The stool from a set of seat furniture, English, circa 1770. Consisting of a daybed (NT 582808), three open armchairs (NT 582809, 582810, 582811) and this stool, all in mahogany and inlaid with holly and padouk and with drop-in seats upholstered in green ottoman silk, standing on square legs with corner spandrels and joined by square stretchers, the daybed and armchairs all with a distinctive wheel-back design having twelve spokes radiating from a fan motif and with roundel finials at the upper corners, the shaped and over-swept arms set back from the front of the seat and having foliate-inlaid terminals, the reverse of the backs with ribbed mouldings behind the spokes tapering to a central roundel.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt