Double stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700 - circa 1715
Materials
Beechwood, paint, webbing, fabric
Measurements
48 x 107 x 54 cm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871332.1
Summary
A double stool, or window seat, one of a pair of beech double stools or window seats, English, early 18th century. NT 871332.2 recently discovered, and covered in what is probably original leather. NT 871332.1 covered in later fabric. Of slightly serpentine outline and with a stuff-over upholstered seat. This example covered in later striped floral fabric. Raised on six moulded and slightly cabriole legs, painted white but with traces of green paint beneath.
Provenance
Date of introduction to Saltram not recorded, but at Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.