Henry VIII boarded stool, ca. 1540, exceedingly rare and probably the most widely publishes English Oak Stool

Provenance:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1921

Literature

M.R.R., ‘A Group of Oak Furniture’, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, July 1921, p. 148, figs. 2, 3.
P. Macquoid, History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak, London, 1904, p. 71, figs. 61a, 61b.

Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, Michigan, 1929, p.17

Fred Roe, “Old Oak Furniture”

18”  wide, 10” deep, 23” high

46 cm  wide, 26 cm deep, 58.5 cm high

Reference Number: P_967

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