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Footstool

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1855-1870

GUSN

GUSN-5648

Description

Six-sided; covered with napped carpeting; top has alternating segments of red carpet or black and cream carpet; oil cloth base with centered button; interior stuffed with straw.

Details

Descriptive Terms

footstools (stools)
oilcloth
straw (plant material)
Straw
Oilcloth
FOOTSTOOL

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3.5 (H), 9.75 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.923

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