Lovely Antique/vintage French Ebonised Barley Twist Stool
Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/28/2023 - 22:55 Lovely Antique/Vintage French Ebonised Barley Twist Stool. This is a lovely vintage French stool.
We assume that it may have originally been a piano stool, or possibly even just a footstool. We think that the wood is probably oak, however it has been ebonised to give it a deep black colour. In areas around the feet, the original colour of the wood is starting to show through. It has four legs, each with a thick barley twist carving.
These legs are then connected with two diagonal thinner barley twist stretchers. In the centre, where the two stretchers intersect, there is a carved ...