Featured Piano seat with leather inlay

I love the leather inlay on this one, art nouveau? late 19th century?

 

Very nice opoe.
The answers: Yes and yes.
And ebonized.
Others will say more about the structure, etc.

 

Stool sample....
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This is probably why he called it a seat.

 

"He (does) know wittle 'ol me vewy welw don't he..."

 

He seems to...

 

Makes you wonder what the piano looked like.

Debora

 

OMG.....

Cool stool. I've never seen one quite like it.

 

That's what one looks like....correct?

 

I try not to look over my shoulder.....

 

something like this maybe: or this but then ebonized like the seat.
As a non-native speaker of english, to me piano stool just does not sound right...

 

Maybe an ebonized piano with some nice Art Nouveau sconces?

Stool translated into Dutch is 'kruk' as well as 'ontlasting'. So a 'piano-kruk' is a piano stool.

 

must be weird for english speakers when they go to an antique store or something like it in the netherlands and hear people talking about an antique "stoel" meaning that antique chair over there... stoelgang(chairgoing literally translated) relates to poop not so much stoel itself. Maybe that is how the word came to be, a polite way of saying one has to poop as one can sit on a toilet as well....oh well nevermind... etymology is fun...

 

Just as weird as all the perfectly normal English words which sound positively obscene in Dutch. Ah, the joys of being multi-lingual.