Much Used Old Pine Stool with Painterly Surface turned wooden handle is signed in the bottom

is signed in the bottom left corner

This one is especially playful with one tiger leaning on the back of the other and a little bird perched on each of their heads

and through the box shows plenty of wear

Photos document the couple of spots where beading is lost or loose

but coming together now just right

Much Used Old Pine Stool with Painterly Surface turned wooden handle is signed in the bottomI'm always looking for good old stools but am having a particular moment with them right now in addition to being the one type of furniture I can easily manage to ship (!), they're also useful things in an endless number of ways, including making great pedestals for other things, and they seem, as much as almost anything else, to wear their histories on their proverbial sleeves. This one has certainly had quite a life, which I might guess included