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On loan

  • On display at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery

Stool

1640-1650 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

On loan to Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shropshire.

Object details

Categories
Furniture
Household Objects
Object type
Stool
Materials and techniques
carved, turned and jointed oak
Oak
Turning
Brief description
oak stool with oblong top, England, ca. 1640
Physical description
Joint stool of oak, oblong top moulded at edges; frieze moulded, four turned and ringed legs splayed outwards with rectangular blocks forming feet which are united with plain stretchers. The 'pegs' to feet (that is, the smaller, turned projections at the base that take the wear on the legs, are still present.
Dimensions
  • Seat height: 53.5cm
  • Width: 45.5cm
  • Depth: 28.8 cm (Note: Measured at Rowley's House, Shrewsbury, 20 September 2004)
Marks and inscriptions
  • W.18-1933 (Inscribed in ink on paper label)
  • CASTLE MUSEUM YORK [printed on paper label] Victoria and Albert Museum July 18th 1951 [inscribed in ink on same label] (Presumably recording an earlier loan, perhaps to an exhibition)
  • A435 (Painted mark on one side rail.)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Harold Ainsworth Peto
Object history
Bequeathed by Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts (an architect and garden designer, whose collection of furniture consisted 'entirely of oak'). H. Clifford Smith, in a minute note (2/8/33) wrote that it is 'a characteristic example, of unusually massive construction'

‘Mr. Harold Peto’s Collection’ by ‘M.J.’ in Country Life, April 10th, 1926 (vol. LIX),

Iford Manor, Wiltshire, the property of Mr H.A. Peto – I and II, in Country Life, Aug. 26th 1922, pp.242-8, and Sept. 2nd 1922, pp.272-7

On long-term loan to Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery since 1982. Displayed at Rowley's House, Shrewsbury, 1982-2013. Moved to new premises in September 2013.
Association
Ilford Manor
Summary
On loan to Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shropshire.
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.18-1933

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Record createdApril 23, 2008
Record URL
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