Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs handmade pattern with a very snugly fitting

with a very snugly fitting lid

clean interior

called Yosegi in Japan

lid closes flush

The frame (with pretty little acorn at top holding a hanging ring) tells me that this inked silhouette dates to the 1830s or so

Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs handmade pattern with a very snugly fittingPhotos do no real justice to this one between the mustard paint and graphicness of the grain painting, it delivers a terrific visual punch. The thickness of the top, combined with the very curvaceous forms of the legs make it feel almost like something else entirely too I keep thinking of the classically inspired deconstructionist postmodern architecture of Charles Moore, say, but also somehow of de Chirico paintings, and also Cubist collages.