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Footstools For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 17th Century
Period: 15th Century and Earlier
Period: 16th Century
Primitive Wood Milking Stool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wood tripod milking stool from the late 18th Century. The stool features a thick seat that sits atop three spayed legs. A beautiful stool or side table.
Signed on seat top.
Dimensio...
Category
Late 18th Century Unknown Primitive Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
18th Century French Louis XV Period Mahogany Hand Carved Foot Stool or Dog Stool
Located in Sofia, BG
18th Century French Louis XV period mahogany hand carved foot stool or dog stool in very good authentic condition still wearing original velvet upholstery in dark red.
France, circa ...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Footstools
Materials
Velvet, Mahogany
Pair of Antique Rococo Giltwood Stools W 18th C Aubusson Tapestry
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Pair of Antique Rococo Giltwood Stools W 18th C Aubusson Tapestry
Category
18th Century French Rococo Antique Footstools
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
Pair of 18th Century Swedish Rococo-Gustavian Footstools
Located in Huntington, NY
An unusual pair of Rococo-Gustavian transitional footstools made in Stockholm. The base has rounded fleurons on the corners and a flower-leaf carving in the bowed center. The legs are turned, tapered and fluted. This piece has older grey paint and has been reupholstered in linen. The original seats are marked with Örebro shipping labels...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Footstools
Materials
Linen, Wood, Paint
Small 18c Rustic Red Stool
Located in New York, NY
A very typical small side stool one would find in a European household, city or country. Lovely as a small side table in a bathroom.
Category
18th Century English Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 18c Ash Stool
Located in New York, NY
Early 18th century ash stool, beautifully crafted with dowel joinery. The ash wood is so wonderfully worn that the entire piece has the smoothest of finishes.
Category
Early 18th Century English Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
French 18th Century Carved Walnut Bench from Provence
Located in Hudson, NY
Rare, Louis XV carved walnut bench with original finish and original leather upholstery. Such a wonderful state of preservation, yet strong and ready to be used.
Please contact me wi...
Category
1740s French Louis XV Antique Footstools
Materials
Walnut, Leather, Oak
Pair of 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Footstools
Located in Huntington, NY
A rare pair of Gustavian footstools with Stockholm chairmaker’s seal on both. Frames are decorated with upright leaf cut. The corners meet in decorative medallions. The legs are fini...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Footstools
Materials
Linen, Wood, Paint
18th Century George III English Oak Foot Stool
Located in San Francisco, CA
Traditional George III period oak foot stool with new velvet upholstery.
Having some old repairs but solid and sturdy.
In very good antique condition...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Oak
RARE ANTIQUE GEORGIAN 1760 CHESTERFIELD LEATHER FOOTSTOOL WiTH SLIP SERVING TRAY
By Chesterfield
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare, hand made in England circa 1780 Georgian footstool with unique Butlers slip serving tray wh...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Footstools
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
18th Century Swedish Folk Art Stool
Located in Mjöhult, SE
A unique organic and sculptural 18th century Swedish Folk Art stool, ca 1770 - 1800. Sweden.
Category
18th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Footstools
Materials
Pine
Early Antique English Carved Walnut & Needlepoint Bench (Stool) Circa 1690
Located in Big Flats, NY
An early antique English bench offers floral needlepoint upholstered seat over walnut base having carved foliate, scroll and reeded elements, c1690
Measures - 17"h x 19"w x 15.5"d
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Category
Late 17th Century English Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Pair of Italian Painted & Gilt Wood Foliate Upholstered Curule Stools, C. 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of Italian painted and gilt wood foliate upholstered Curule stools with flanking central foliage medallions, and resting on scrolled feet with the original connecting cross stre...
Category
1780s Italian Neoclassical Antique Footstools
Materials
Giltwood, Wood, Upholstery
18th Century French Louis XVI Diminutive Mahogany Footstool
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming diminutive or petite footstool from the French Louis XVI period. The stool features a hand-carved mahogany frame with neoclassical motifs. T...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Footstools
Materials
Brass
Fully Restored George III Style Hand Carved Bench Stool with Lion Hairy Paw Feet
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this fully restored absolutely sublime George III style vintage hand carved mahogany bench stool
A very well presented hand carved stool, each leg starts at the top with a lions main then flows downwards with elegant cabriolet legs and finishes with Lions hairy paw feet
The timber has all been stripped back, stained and French polished, its in perfect order
This piece is designed as a large dressing table...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Hardwood
Set of 4 Italian Empire Stools
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning and outstanding set of 4 Empire Stools from Venice, Italy. Beautifully constructed from polychromed and gilt wood. Wonderful finishes in faux tortoise shell and antico ver...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV/Régence Carved Oak Stool or Tabouret
Located in Berlin, DE
Early 18th Century Louis XIV/Régence Carved Oak stool or Tabouret
Square and upholstered seat resting on a shaped apron with c-scrolls, leafs and central shell motifs. The four legs are carved as square balusters decorated with flower garland carving and joined by a x-shaped stretcher with curvy braces and a central square with a paterae motif. Carved oak. Upholstered with modern gobelin fabric...
Category
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Footstools
Materials
Oak
Matched Pair of 18th Century French Giltwood Footstools
Located in London, GB
A fine matched pair of eighteenth century giltwood footstools of oval form, with carved guilloche decoration to the seat rail, intersected with paterae above four gadrooned and taper...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Footstools
Materials
Giltwood
French Louis XVI Antique Footstool, 18th Century
Located in Shippensburg, PA
FRENCH LOUIS XVI PAINTED FOOTSTOOL
France, circa late 18th century
Item # 206DGU29P-1
A very nice and petite footstool from the last quarter of the...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Italian Walnut and Upholstered Rococo Footstool, Mid 18th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a brown velvet upholstered top trimmed in patinated nailheads, the shaped apron supported by cabriole legs terminating in upturned raised pad feet.
Category
1750s Italian Rococo Antique Footstools
Materials
Walnut
18th C. Italian Baroque Cassone or Blanket Chest
Located in Sheffield, MA
A wonderfully rustic early Italian hand carved cassone with egg and dart moulded frame, time-softened wood and solid panels on the front and sides. Although this chest has suffered w...
Category
18th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
Antique 1 of 2 18th Century circa 1780 Georgian Claw & Ball Carved Walnut Stools
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime circa 1780 George II and later walnut stool with ornately carved legs and Claw & Ball feet
This piece is a very good looking well m...
Category
1780s English George II Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
18th Century Louis XV Petite Footstool Tabouret Original Aged Finish, France
Located in Miami, FL
REDUCED FROM $950....Petite Louis XV carved wood footstool or low tabouret with cabriolet legs and floral carvings. Newly upholstered in a stylized woven chevron in beige and gold on...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
George III Mahogany Footstool
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular brown leather top with brass tacking, raised on square section legs with box form stretcher. Estate of Douglas S Kramer. TV producer and art collector.
Category
1780s English George III Antique Footstools
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Sublime Georgian 1780 Small Round Walnut Footstool Very Decorative Little Piece
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this lovely small Georgian Walnut round footstool
A very nicely made traditional Georgian stool, the frame is walnut, the upholstery is Victorian I think...
Category
1780s English Georgian Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
1 of 2 18th Century circa 1780 Georgian Claw & Ball Carved Walnut Stools
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this sublime circa 1780 George II and later walnut stool with ornately carved legs and Claw & Ball feet
This piece is a very good looking well made and d...
Category
1780s English Georgian Antique Footstools
Materials
Upholstery, Walnut
Rare English 18th Century Walnut Stool
Located in Lymington, GB
A fine and rare English parcel-gilt walnut stool.
Early 18th century, George I period, circa 1720.
Upholstered in 17th-century tapestry and partially clo...
Category
1720s English George I Antique Footstools
Materials
Walnut
Italian, Piemontese, Rococo Period Lacquered and Gilded Footstool, Mid 18th Cen.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a jacard print needlepoint upholstered cushion trimmed in small nailheads atop a carved and shaped wooden frame that is lacquered and has giltwood details, the cabriole legs t...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Footstools
Materials
Giltwood
Period, Italian Bench in New Upholstery
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A hand-carved, 18th c., Italian walnut bench on turned legs and stretchers, now upholstered in a vibrant, contemporary, silk velvet.
Category
1790s Italian Antique Footstools
Materials
Velvet, Walnut
Early 18th Century English George II Deeply Carved Footstool
Located in Stamford, CT
An early 18th century English George II deeply carved footstool.
Category
Early 18th Century English George II Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
George III Mahogany Serpentine Stool, circa 1780-1790 carved turned fluted legs
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
shaped rectangular seat above stiff leaf carved turned fluted legs, on turned feet, upholstered in Hermes Ottoman stripe design fabric.
Category
1780s European George III Antique Footstools
Materials
Mahogany
Small French Provincial Circassian Walnut Footstool with Modern Upholstery
Located in Middleburg, VA
Small French Provincial Circassian walnut footstool with modern upholstery
Rest your wary feet like royalty with this rare Louis XIV period small Fr...
Category
Late 17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Footstools
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Louis XV Carved Stool
Located in Stockton, NJ
18th century Louis XV carved tabouret stool with new Edelman leather upholstery. Wonderful understated carving.
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Footstools
Materials
Leather, Wood
Portuguese Baroque Lacquered Bench
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular with a Flemish tapestry fragment seat, carved frame with initials inscription, cabriole legs, shaped stretchers and ball and claw feet.
Category
1740s Portuguese Baroque Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
George II Mahogany Stool
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Mid-18th century George II mahogany stool, the over upholstered rectangular seat raised on cabriole legs each carved with stylized shell termi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Irish George II Antique Footstools
Materials
Mahogany
Fine George III ‘French Hepplewhite’ Giltwood Stool, circa 1780
Located in Westwood, NJ
Fine George III French Hepplewhite giltwood stool with shells and crosshatched carving.
Category
18th Century English Antique Footstools
Materials
Wood
Pair of 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Footstools
Located in Huntington, NY
A beautiful pair of Swedish Gustavian footstools from Gotland. Leaf cut decor around the sides with reeded fleurons on the corners. The leg tops are finished with inverted pedals ove...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Footstools
Materials
Linen, Wood, Paint
Pair of 18th Century Carved Italian Benches
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of beautifully carved Italian benches
Provenance-Rome
Genoa Auction House.
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Footstools
Antique and Vintage Footstools
Antique and vintage footstools might add a dose of fun to your living room, but they’re also hard workers.
Even as they’ve morphed into objects with plenty of functions over time, the footstool has a royal past. In Ancient Egypt, a footstool was used to climb onto an elevated chair or placed under someone’s feet as he or she was seated in a temple or private residence. Footstools were also in use during the Ottoman Empire. In fact, the ottoman, an upholstered seat or small bench that initially had no back or arms, was the main seating furniture in a home. Ottomans were a way to merge floor seating with cushions and mats.
Poufs, which originated in France, are also thought of as convenient seating furniture as well as occasionally serving as a side table, if needed. (Although, a pouf is typically not as firm as an ottoman.)
Over the years, footstools have taken on varying purposes. They have been used as small portable chairs, for example.
During the 18th century, a footstool might have been long with a low profile, which rendered it perfect for fireside seating. Victorian footstools were small but not unassuming, as furniture makers of the era would upholster the pieces so that they paired with the nearby sofa or wingback chairs. Footstools have even become a storage solution at home, with designers outfitting them with compartments. Today, a footstool might be used to organize quilts and blankets or other textiles, especially if you’re trying to keep things uncluttered in a small apartment.
Footstools are now available in all sorts of provocative colors, upholstery and more. No one is going to put a velvet footstool out on the curb, right? When shopping for your own footstool, try to find one that meets the height of your sofa or other seating (or is a tad lower). It should also be sturdy but not a heavy, clunky piece that’s a chore to move around.
The footstool is both decorative and functional. Not unlike a good throw pillow, interior designers have found numerous uses for this versatile, vibrant furnishing. Find yours in the growing collection of antique and vintage footstools today on 1stDibs.
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