Child's stool

Date1780-1850

MediumWhite pine

DimensionsOH: 5 1/2"; OW: 13 7/8"; OD: 7 1/4"

Credit LineGift of an Anonymous Donor

Object number1971-764

DescriptionStool built on angle, although top is level; single board top; long sides each of a board with molding upper and lower edges and tapered-in ends; leg ends of single board with large V-notch forming legs; large headed nails used throughout; painted yellow, covered by red paint.Inscription(s)under seat, written in pencil, "Lydia Bird / Basking Ridge/ New Jersey". Basking Ridge is in Somerset County, NJ.ProvenanceSigned on underside by Lydia Bird of Basking Ridge, NJ. This may have been the Lydia A. Bird (1838-1861) who married Peter Layton Compton in Basking Ridge March 2, 1861. Another Lydia Bird (b. 1780) appeared with her husband John G. Bird on the 1850 US census in Warren, NJ, less than 10 miles from Basking Ridge.