Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs woman-shaped All are in good condition

All are in good condition

) Then this one crossed my path

The back is pretty flat

A perfect counterpoint to the delicate sets of antique bone spillikins I also love--this wonderfully chunky old set of wooden jackstraws

Fabulous Mid 19th C. Mustard Grain Painted Stool with Fancy Legs woman-shaped All are in good conditionPhotos 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.