Pair of Back Stools

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Pair of Back Stools
DateLate 1600s
PlaceEngland
MediumOak, leather and brass
DimensionsEach: 36 7/8 x 17 3/4 x 18 1/4in. (93.7 x 45.1 x 46.3cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Arch and Stella Rowan Foundation, Inc.
Object number95.264.1,.2
Not on view

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Provenance[William H. Stokes, Gloucestershire, England]; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Two Worlds: MANUAL, The Collaboration of Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom," at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 22 to May 23, 2004 (used as a support for EX.2004.MA.132, a pigment print reproduction of Poussin's 1638 The Arcadian Shepherds).

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