Oak gout stool frame.
Identifier
FPF393
Title
Oak gout stool frame.
Date
1870-1890
Description
Oak gout stool frame.
Full Description
This oak gout stool has a concertina frame adjustable by means of two ratchets which allow the stool to be raised or lowered. There are brass hooks which keep the ratchets in place. The stool has lost its top panel, which would probably have been upholstered; there are holes in the side rails which would have been for fixing the panel with pegs or screws.
This oak stool is a close copy of gout stools made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, usually in mahogany. A. Hepplewhite and Co.’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture, 1st edition, 1788, included an illustration of a gout stool, and stated: ‘the construction of which, by being so easily raised or lowered at either hand, is particularly useful to the afflicted’.
An identical design for this gout stool was featured in The London Chairmakers’ and Carvers’ Book of Prices (1823) (Joy, 1994).
This oak stool is a close copy of gout stools made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, usually in mahogany. A. Hepplewhite and Co.’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture, 1st edition, 1788, included an illustration of a gout stool, and stated: ‘the construction of which, by being so easily raised or lowered at either hand, is particularly useful to the afflicted’.
An identical design for this gout stool was featured in The London Chairmakers’ and Carvers’ Book of Prices (1823) (Joy, 1994).
Condition
Top panel (probably upholstered) missing.
Two brass hooks missing.
Two brass hooks missing.
Materials
Oak.
Physical Dimensions
H. 25
W. 64
D. 43
W. 64
D. 43
Provenance
In the Collection prior to 1993.
Notes
J. Gloag, A Complete Dictionary of Furniture, revised and expanded by C. Edwards, Woodstock, 1991, pp. 368-369.
Ed. E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, reprinted 1994, p. 264.
Ed. E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, reprinted 1994, p. 264.
