A GEORGE II OVAL CARVED MAHOGANY STOOL circa 1755

the drop-in seat with a contemporary needlework cover worked with birds within a foliate border, within a plain frame carved at the front and back with a C-scroll, the cabriole legs headed by stylized shells within C-scrolls continuing to scrolled brackets above pendant husks and supported on claw and ball toes with hairy fetlocks.  The needlework severely distressed.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1985, lot 69

Christie's, New York, April 13, 2000, lot 13, the Property of a New England Private Collector

John C. Rogers, English Furniture, London, 1959, p. 209, fig. 133