A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FOOTSTOOLS, possibly by Gillows, each with square padded seat covered in foliate-arabesque beadwork, with foliate loose-cover on a blue ground, above a shaped apron with C-scrolls and on scrolled channelled feet
Details
A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FOOTSTOOLS, possibly by Gillows, each with square padded seat covered in foliate-arabesque beadwork, with foliate loose-cover on a blue ground, above a shaped apron with C-scrolls and on scrolled channelled feet
17in. (43cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Peter Langford-Brooke (d.1840)
Lot Essay
Patterns for related richly scrolled and scalloped stools, in the Louis XV style, feature in Thomas King's, Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, 1829