A rare Elizabethan oak boarded 16th century stool

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Description

50cm. high, 51cm. wide, 27cm. deep; 1ft. 7½in., 1ft. 2in., 10½in

the moulded apron with pierced ogee arch, the sides ending in shaped feet

Provenance

formerly in the collection of S. W. Wolsey;
Mary Bellis, Hungerford, purchased on 22nd August 1962.

Literature

Geoffrey Wills, English Furniture 1550-1760, London, 1971, p. 12, illustrated fig. 1.

Catalogue Note

For another stool sold at auction and formerly in The Dewar Collection, Dutton Homestall, East Grintstead, Sussex, with a similar pierced arch to each apron frieze, see Christie's London, May 27th 1999, lot 380