A Magnificent and Important Tudor Oak Stool

The thick top is made from a single board, which has a beautiful grain, and is secured to the rails by four oak pegs, or dowels. The seat rails have two separate bands of run moulding, and stand on bold turned legs.

The legs are deeply carved, with wide tapering flutes, short and inverted at the top over long upright flutes below, which terminate in a small semi-circular device. Below the main centre of the leg the pattern is repeated, but on a smaller scale.

The heavy “squares” at the base of the leg are joined by a plain stretcher.

This example is probably one of the earliest stools to have come to light in many, many years and dates to the mid-Elizabethan period.

English, circa 1580.

Width 18 inches, depth 10.5 inches, height 22.5 inches.

Ref 2950

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