Three Spool Leg Antique Stool with Piecework Top and Unusual Form italian pietra dura box With original wood backing

With original wood backing

I'm a big fan of old Sapolin products to begin with (they sold little bottles of gold paint for Japanning in terrific dome-lidded turned wooden boxes that I always grab when I find them)

) These seem to have been a handicraft specific to West Africa

ink and graphite

I really like the graphic quality of the big red EGLANTINE across one side of this old wooden box

Three Spool Leg Antique Stool with Piecework Top and Unusual Form italian pietra dura box With original wood backingThe silk piecework covering the face of this antique stool is much worn, but I find it really beautiful, and I love the unusual shape of the stool, evoking hand fans and fire screens, and with the spooled handle, like a fourth leg, completing the reference. Cut of a very thick slab of wood, with three more spooled legs to stand on. C. 1870s 80s New England, I believe. 16 at handle, 11 5 8 x 7 1 2 t. I wouldn't put much weight on it, as the legs are a