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Stool

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1750-1800

GUSN

GUSN-8343

Description

Rough-hewn bench (stool) fashioned from half log with three legs. Unpainted.

Details

Descriptive Terms

stools (seating furniture)
ash (wood)
birch (wood)
hewing
roughness
Birch
Ash
Rough-Hewn
STOOL

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

21.5 x 9.75 x 24 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.540

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