My Latest Favorite Stool, 19th C. in Gray Over Mustard Paint with Lovely Tapered Legs painting of choppy sea with just these paned

with just these paned

In Japan these are used for watercolor painting

and also a real radiance and pop to the fruit in the right light (more so than my photos convey

seems to pay homage

Late 19th or 20th century I would guess

My Latest Favorite Stool, 19th C. in Gray Over Mustard Paint with Lovely Tapered Legs painting of choppy sea with just these panedAnother week, another lovely old stool; I can't deal with furniture of any scale, but I can manage a stool, and they're my favorites, plus of course very useful as pedestals for non functional things. I purchased this one at Brimfield from a dealer from whom I covet most everything (also the source of the extra long antique whimsy chain this week.) It's the clean lines and elegantly tapering legs on this one that really do it for me, plus the old gray