Regency Curule Stool

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An elegant early 19th century parcel-gilt foot-stool of curule form. Sella Curulis, the chair of state, is derived by the ancient writers from currus (chariot). The sella curulis i s said to have been used at Rome from a very remote period as an emblem of kingly power, having been imported, along with various other insignia of royalty, from Etruria. However, much earlier stools supported on a cross-frame are known from the New Kingdom of Egypt. A related design, along with two other ancient fragments from the Museo Borbonico in Naples, Italy, is illustrated in John Murray, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London, 1875, p.520.The form found its way into stylish but non-royal decoration in the archaeological second phase of neoclassicism in the early 19th century. Show more