Pair of Aesthetic Movement Oak Thebes Stools – Leather Studded, c.1890
£1,200 / set
Pair of oak Thebes stools aligned to the Aesthetic Movement (1860–1900), c.1890, designed as low British footstools for a domestic interior. Each stool has a square framed seat upholstered in plain leather with a row of large dome studs defining the edge, raised on four short turned legs with mushroom feet. The aprons are of quarter-sawn oak, the ray fleck visually softening the geometric profile and giving the small forms a clear sense of material presence.
Within the family of so-called Thebes stools, these low examples sit at the intersection of Aesthetic and Egyptian Revival design. Late nineteenth-century British makers adapted ancient Egyptian stools from Thebes, popularised through excavated examples in the British Museum, into modern household seating, a pattern later formalised in Liberty and Co’s patented Thebes models from the 1880s onwards. These stools follow that tradition in a simplified form, exchanging the usual dished saddle seat for a flat cushion yet retaining the characteristic compact plan and strongly profiled legs.
Width: 11.02 in (28 cm)
Depth: 8.27 in (21 cm)
1890-1899
