Title
Footstool
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th centuries
Region
Penang
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 15.5 x 82 x 27.5 cm
Accession No.
2005-00060
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Khaw Teik Kooi
This Chinese-style blackwood footstool is decorated with mother-of-pearl inlay. It belongs to a set of furniture that usually consists of eight chairs, four tea tables, two side-tables and two long benches. In wealthy Peranakan families, furniture like these was usually given to daughters as part of their wedding trousseau.
