Footnotes

• Provenance: The Peter Gwynn Collection. Formerly at Dame Annis Barn, Epsom, Surrey. R.T.Gwynn catalogue reference F13, described as late 15th/early 16th century, English, (East Anglian).
  
  An extremely similar boarded stool in the John Adler Collection illustrated Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 p.195, pl.238; sold Sotheby's, 24 February, 2005, lot 60, (£15,000). The author notes that the double reeded-edges to the top of the illustrated example, (as found on this lot), are unusual, and more often associated with joint stools. Further examples illustrated pp.193-199, including a similar stool in The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, p.199, pl.247; and p.194, pl.235, sold Sotheby's 29 October 2008, lot 302, (£12,500).
  
  This established pierced design to each apron, two semi-circles centred by a key-hole, is again demonstrated by a stool in The Clive Sherwood Collection, sold Sotheby's, 22 May 2002, lot 84, (£19,975). A further example in the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, No. W.95-1921, donated by A.H.Fass, Giffards Hall, Wickhambrook, Newmarket; reputedly purchased by the donor in Bury St. Edmund's, (presently on loan).
  
  See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture The British Tradition, pp.261-262, for a discussion and illustration of boarded stools.

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Category: Furniture

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