Rare Library Stool With Concealed Trap Door: Three Faux Books Laid Flat, Mahogany Base

This delightful library stool from the Charles X period, with a Jacob base in mahogany, is a real curiosity, elegant and practical, decorative as desired and functional with its generous hatch and its small side compartment with lid. Concealed by a stack of false large books flat in beautiful red, yellow and green polychromy, a patinated paint and playing the game to give impression and moreover calculating the seat height on a carved solid wood and resting on the frame with mahogany crosspieces, the four keel feet of the design of the famous cabinetmaker Jacob. This delightful and useful occasional piece of furniture has a beautiful decorative impact the varnished red mahogany base supporting these three false large volumes. A hinge and an interior side brass arm holding the chest raised, a piece from the Charles X period (around 1820) cleaned and ready to use in very good condition and stable as well as robust, a pretty decorative piece for a side table in the living room or the pleasure of the world of books in a library