Stool
Furniture MakerMade by
The Hitchcock Chair Co., Ltd.
American, 1947 - 2006
Date1970-1990
MediumWood, rush, black, red and gold paint
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width x depth): 18 3/8 x 18 1/4 x 13 11/16in. (46.7 x 46.4 x 34.8cm)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionBlack-painted stool in the Empire, or late neoclassical, style, with a rush seat and turned legs and stretchers. The woven rush seat is rectangular and bowed across the center. Each corner of the rush top consists of a block with a gold stenciled floral decoration on the top. The top is supported by four turned legs that are raked, or slanted out slightly from top to bottom. Each leg is turned with baluster and ring forms, over a tapered ankle and foot. The two long sides of the stool each have a stretcher turned with ring, baluster, and tapered forms. The two short sides of the stool each have one plain turned stretcher connecting the legs.
Condition: The paint is worn slightly at the edges of the blocks at the top of the legs and on the lower legs.
Design and Construction Details: The seat is constructed of four seat rails, each of which is tenoned into a rectangular block supported by a tenon at the top of each of the legs. Each seat rail is probaby bladelike, with a rounded outer edge and a tapered inner edge. The rush is woven around the seat rails. Each stretcher is tenoned into the legs of the stool.
Condition: The paint is worn slightly at the edges of the blocks at the top of the legs and on the lower legs.
Design and Construction Details: The seat is constructed of four seat rails, each of which is tenoned into a rectangular block supported by a tenon at the top of each of the legs. Each seat rail is probaby bladelike, with a rounded outer edge and a tapered inner edge. The rush is woven around the seat rails. Each stretcher is tenoned into the legs of the stool.
Object number2006.32.3
Markings"L. HITCHCOCK. HITCHCOCKS-VILLE, CONN./ WARRANTED." is stenciled in gilt paint on the underside of one plain turned stretcher. All the "N"s in the mark are reversed, and an "R" inside a circle is stenciled to the lower right of the mark.The letter "X" is stamped into the underside of two of the four blocks at the top of the legs. The mark "H.C. Co." is stamped into the underside of a third block at the top of a leg.
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