Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs handmade pattern one slightly larger and one

one slightly larger and one slightly smaller)

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

and later at the Art Student League in New York

“People throws this stuff out

They have lost their original box

Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs handmade pattern one slightly larger and onePhotos 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.