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Empire style mahogony footstool with an embroidered vegetal pattern on the seat. Two C shaped legs joined by a stretcher.
footstools (stools)
mahogany (wood)
embroidery (visual works)
Empire (style)
Footstool
''Reproduction / Robert Ball Willis footstool / owned by James H. Duncan - / mahogany was bought from the west Indies by Capt David Adams about 1850-'' (handwritten)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
FD261
Unknown
13 1/2 x 12 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2050
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