Footstool
- Object Name:
- Footstool
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.50
- Date:
- 1825-1850
- Description:
- Footstool. "Cricket" type, with rectangular top and four turned cylindrical legs. Top is 1 3/8" thick with bottom 1/2" beveled. Legs are slightly splayed. Stained red with yellow stripping; top decorated with stenciled bronze designs of stylized flowers and foliage. Paint slightly worn at edges. Imperfection at top of one leg. Fragments of a printed paper label on underside of top.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-7.5 W-12 D-6.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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