Beautiful Blond Walnut Footstool With Grenoble End Grain Wood Inlay Late 18th Century Axe

Rare pretty Louis XV style foot stool in blond walnut from Grenoble attributed to the House of the famous Carpenter Cabinetmaker Hache who still knows a great notoriety to this day. At the end of the "Age of Enlightenment" the house will come to an end with the death of his last Son. This precious little stool is a curiosity by its pretty end woods assembled in parquetry a decorative technique highlighted this Grenoble manufacturing so elegant, rivaling the Capital by its creativity and the use of local species in decoration of often happy and high quality marquetry. The end woods by nature darker of walnut trunk, cut at the right season (end of Spring for the rise of the sap) with incomparable tannin giving the furniture resistance and glaze. To return to this charming piece, the top has a shimmering color contrasting the rest of the furniture is set in a frame with richly molded edges, and the crosspiece with diamond parquetry recalling the top. The pegged belt and alternating four arched feet at the end ending in a stylized shoe. Useful at home, it served as a step to wind up the clocks with sheaths too high for most people.