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Deep blue-painted Shaker wooden stool; rectangular seat with groove carved just under the seat; four round, slightly splayed legs that taper towards the bottom with conforming stretchers. Distinctive deep bright blue color, somewhat dainty.
Windsor stools
gluing
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
Oak
Glued
Painted
STOOL
On a jelly label on the underside of the seat: ""Shaker stool/from Canterbury/NH""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Shaker Village (Maker)
Canterbury, NH, USA
21.25 x 13 x 11 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.944
New Hampshire (United States)
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