A stool of carved and gilt wood upholstered with a valance and a loose cushion of red silk velvet trimmed with silk braids, and with other textiles. The carved beech frame has pierced, tapered legs carved with foliage and lambrequins, joined by scrolling X-form stretchers which meet at a central vase finial. The valance is fitted to an upholstered lip on all four sides, within which the cushion, of boxed construction, sits. The gilding of the frame has been renewed. The cushion has a central rectangular pane of a green-ground silk velvet, with mitred borders of an orange-ground silk textile (almost certainly also velvet), now very degraded (especially the orange borders). This sits within wider borders of a later red velvet, which are also mitred, and the vertical box panels are of the same red velvet. The horizontal seam betwen the top borders and the upright borders is concealed by a wide braid, and the upright and mitred seams were formerly covered by narrow braid, now missing (but which survives in part on the companion stool, W.14-2009). The trimmings on this cushion differ from those on the companion stool, and neither precisely reflects the original arrangement. The underside of the cushion is covered in red silk over a red worsted. The valanced cover has a central panel of two layers of silk (blue-green below, pinkish red above), and red ribbon tied in a bow at each corner. To each ribbon is tied a string or cord, which in turn is tied through two round 'button-holes' in the silk panels and their hemp(?) lining to the base cloth and webbing below. The velvet valances are also lined with hemp(?), and on the innermost face with a glazed red worsted (the hemp(?) thus sandwiched between the velvet and the worsted).