Details
A GEORGE I OAK STOOL, the rectangular padded seat covered in early 18th Century gros and petit point needlework depicting blue and white Chinese drinking-vessels and foliate sprays on a claret ground, on cabriole club legs and pad feet, one leg spliced, some cross-struts replaced, one foot partially replaced
23½in. (60cm.) wide; 16¼in. (51.5cm.) high; 19½in. (41.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire, firstly in the (Large) Drawing Room in 1931, then in the Blue Room by 1938 and finally recorded back in the in the Drawing Room in 1939
Literature
C. Hussey, 'Trent Park II', Country Life, 17 January 1931, p. 67, figs. 2-3 (illustrated in situ in the Saloon and Drawing Room)
'Trent Park', The Antique Collector, December 1938, p. 348 (illustrated in situ in the Blue Room)
Dr. S. Doree, Trent Park: A Short History to 1939, 1974. repr. 1990 (illustrated in situ in the Drawing Room)
