Antique Oriental Carpet Footstool, Hand-Knotted Wool on Porcelain Casters

A little footstool covered in a piece of a genuine hand-knotted Oriental carpet, the pile worn down over a century of use to the soft, faded palette collectors chase on purpose. Rust red, indigo, and old gold in a lobed six-panel top, all on a turned wood base that rolls on its original porcelain casters.

This is a make-do piece in the best sense, a worn antique rug given a second life as furniture, with the kind of honest character you cannot fake or reproduce. Pull it up to a reading chair, tuck it under a console, or use it as a low perch by the fire. Footstools like this never last long here.

A little woven multicolored tab at the top edge is original, a handy pull for sliding the stool out from under a table. Fair but sound otherwise: the carpet shows honest age with low, worn pile and a few spots where the foundation shows through. The wood base is solid and the porcelain casters roll. Priced as the characterful, well-loved antique it is.