Stool
1550-1650 (made)
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On loan to Oak House Museum, West Bromwich
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Brief description | English, oak, 1500-50, oak, 75/2148 |
Physical description | Boarded oak stool. The seat board with moulded edges rests in deep slots cut into the two broad supports which have moulded edges (some losses) and ogee-shaped openings below. They are joined beneath the seat by two rails with undulating lower edges and nulled ends. Each rail has an incised stem and leaf ornament. The rails were originally c15.5cm deep but have lost the original moulded lower edge on one side. The seat board is fastened to the supports by 6 pegs and two added nails. Dark varnish overall. |
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Gallery label | Stool. Oak. English; mid 16th century. This small stool is of a typical late Gothic type.(1968) |
Object history | Given by Mr Robert L. Mond F.S.A. See RP 1916/2591, Nominal File MA/1/M2476. He had acquired the stool from the dealer J.D. Phillips, 166 Brompton Road, London SW7, specifically to donate it to the Museum. Dating - although this type of stool and the ogee arch ornament seem to have been produced in England around 1500, the moulded edges, nulling and overall condition of this stool suggest that a date later in the 16th or well into the 17th is more likely. |
Historical context | Comparable stools 'An Elizabethan Oak Boarded Stool Late 16th/Early 17th Century, Sotheby's Fine Furniture, London, 10 September 2007, p.79 (and Sothebys London 28/10/2008 no. 302 Sothebys London 28/10/2008 nos. 252 See also Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition (Woodbridge, 1979), p.261ff Symonds, Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England, 1955, p.63ff figs. 95ff Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats, 1500-1700 (Woodbridge, 2009), pl.236 |
Summary | On loan to Oak House Museum, West Bromwich |
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Accession number | W.65-1916 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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