Contemporary Hardwood Round Stool with "Continuing" Design and Hand-Painted Porcelain Top with Floral Design.

This vintage (used) 20th century garden stool style hardwood stool is constructed and carved with twisted thick bands "tied" with knots all in tongue-and-groove joinery without nails. The purpose of the design with a twisted vine or branch look is to suggest a "never-ending, continuing" Chinese aesthetics and philosophy that might have originated from Chinese calligraphy style. Such design of woodwork had been very popular during the Qing Dynasty and are still being created in the modern time. The top frame of the stool is made of a type of Huali hardwood with lighter color, while the wood for the rest of the stool is unidentified, but might still be some kind of hardwood. 20th century contemporary.

The painted porcelain top makes this stool perfect as an end table next to a couch or a chair. It adds an elegance to a modern decor.

Dimensions: 18" H x 16" Diameter (widest) and 12 1/2" Diameter for the top

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