Footstool
- Object Name:
- Footstool
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.49
- Date:
- 1825-1850
- Description:
- Footstool. "Cricket" type, with circular pine top and four splayed, cylindrical legs. Edge of top is slightly rounded. Painted with red and black tortoise-shell graining and yellow striping; stenciled basket in bronze on top. Materials: probably birch or white pine. Typed paper label with accession information on underside of top. Three holes in triangular formation on underside of top, perhaps where attached to lathe for rounding edge of top.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-7.625 Dia-9.25 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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