Dressing stool
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1840
Materials
Turned mahogany, later printed chintz cotton loose cover
Measurements
44 x 50 x 40 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998024
Summary
A mahogany and upholstered dressing stool, English, circa 1840. The seat upholstered in pink fabric, and with later chintz cotton loose cover printed with pink flowers on a white ground, raised on four turned legs.
Provenance
Probably the stool just visible in the Tapestry Room (the Inlaid Chamber - the paneling at that point in the Victoria and Albert Museum) in Country Life in 1906. Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.
References
Sizergh Castle, Country Life (June, 1906), Vol. XIX, No. 495.