An exceptionally fine George III mahogany X-frame stool, the slightly concave seat of wonderfully thin profile, the frame carved with superbly detailed paterae and central foliate decoration.

With outstanding colour and patination.

A very closely related stool in the collections of the Dukes of Northumberland, Syon House. Illustrated in The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. III, p. 182, fig. 69 and Eileen Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, 1963, p. 13.