Lot Essay
A related stool is illustrated in Wolsey & Luff, Furniture in England, The Age of the Joiner, London, 1968, fig.115, currently owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Details
An oak and upholstered stool, English, late 17th century
now covered with 17th century turkeywork (restorations), with rectangular seat and block and turned legs joined by square section stretchers, on turned feet, two stretchers replaced -- 17in. (44cm.) by 16in. (42cm.)
See Illustration
now covered with 17th century turkeywork (restorations), with rectangular seat and block and turned legs joined by square section stretchers, on turned feet, two stretchers replaced -- 17in. (44cm.) by 16in. (42cm.)
See Illustration