AN ENGLISH OAK STOOL

These rose-flowered stools, of chamfer-edged oak and mediaeval X-shaped form, are designed in the antiquarian 'New Palace of Westminster' style invented by the architect A.W.N. Pugin (d. 1852). Pugin may have based his designs on existing Medieval furniture examples such as Queen Mary's Chair, an oak X-frame chair with bronze floral medallion at the intersections, traditionally held to be that used by Queen Mary at her marriage in 1554 to Philip II of Spain in Winchester Cathedral (G. Beard, Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England 1530-1840, London, 1997, pp. 36-37.)