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Round top with a padded, hooked seat with worked in wool yarns, with a red and green floral spig at the center on a tan ground enclosed by green leaf-shaped devices, and green wool fringe. It is raised on four splayed rod-turned legs joined by box stretches and grain painted in red and black. The seat cover is on a fine linen ground.
Windsor stools
wood (plant material)
graining
hooking
wool (textile)
floral patterns
Wood
Wool
Hooked
Painted
Floral
Stool
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
17 1/4 x 11 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1642
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