The padded oblong seats above ogee legs, each connected by down-scrolled stretchers painted with chinoiserie headed by an earl’s coronet.
The legs connected by a turned H-stretcher, 55cm wide.
The 1738 Burghley Inventory records: ‘Lady Exeter’s Closet … 2 Stools, japan’d frames, covered with the same as the hangings’.
The Lady Exeter referred to was Hannah Sophia, wife of Brownlow, 8th Earl of Exeter (1701-1754).
