“AMERICAN FANCY” PAINTED PINE MINIATURE FOOT-STOOL, Three Pink Roses, pink buds on foliage; yellow lined “GOTHICK” (key-hole) cutouts on all four sides of the overhanging top Circa : 1835-45 Height 6-1/2". Length 12-7/8" x 7". Typical wear, good early and old paint # 2951........................................ $ 275.
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Yellow line work follows "Gothick" key-hole cutouts and fancy overhang
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Trio of Pink Roses in center of top
Natural wear from history of use
"Gothick" key-hole cutout and yellow line, end view
One Side
the second long side
Opposite Side
From beneath
Roses & Buds on ochre-gold-green spray
'Three Pink Rose' center in miniature foot stool dated 1820 - 1840, in Sumpter Priddy's book AMERICAN FANCY
(More extravagantly painted, but without the key-hole cutouts. in the American Folk Art Museum, New York)
Sumpter Priddy. AMERICAN FANCY. Figure 240
204, Chipstone Foundation