Description
A rare late-17th century walnut stool of lovely colour and surface patination, circa 1680.
On bobbin-turned supports and stretchers. Upholstered in old needlework, and close-nailed.
All in excellent original condition.
See Ralph Edwards CBE FSA ‘The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture’, (Hamlyn, Fourth impression 1972), p. 501, ill. 12, for similar turnings on an oak stool which is dated to 1670.
Measurements:
W 17” (43 cm.)
D 15” (38 cm.)
H 17” (43 cm.)
BHA 1054.
