AN ELIZABETHAN OAK STOOL

16TH CENTURY AND LATER

Details

AN ELIZABETHAN OAK STOOL
16TH CENTURY AND LATER
The later rectangular top above a guilloche-carved frieze on fluted legs joined by box stretchers
20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high, 16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) wide, 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Percy Macquoid, The Yellow House, London and Hoove Lea, Hove.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak, London, 1904, p. 148, fig. 121.
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 32, fig. 54.

Lot Essay

This stool once belonged to the acclaimed advisor, author and collector Percy Macquoid (d. 1925) whose London home, The Yellow House, was praised in its day. Macquoid’s ‘antiquarian approach to the past’ informed the interiors of the house which were organized by historical period (A. H. Moore, Fraud, Fakery and False Business, London, 2011, pp. 73, 111).

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