拍品的状况可能存在极大差异，而由于其性质使然，拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。

We have sought to record the changes in the condition of this piece acquired after its initial manufacture.
Both:
- the stools are constructed with re-used timbre
- hard mat seats are replacements
- stretchers are probably later added
- expected nicks, minor chips, dents to the edges and surface scratches
One:- two feet with small polished loss
- two small wax fills to the inner edges of the narrow framing members
- two stretchers with a wax fill
- one leg with wax fill to where it meets the lower stretcher on the other narrow side
The other: - one longer framing member with a few gauge marks, a filled age crack and a few smaller filled areas
- one apron replaced
- one leg with two small patches and two wax fill on the inner side of the leg where it joins the frame
- small consolidated age crack with fill to another leg and a small flaw to the inner side where it joins the apron
- one upper stretcher on the narrow side with one filled area and a small patch