A Charles II joined oak double panel-back open armchair, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, circa 1670
REF: 2291
The back having a slender panel carved with addorsed leafy-scrolls, above a larger lozenge-carved panel, the double-scroll profiled cresting set between the round-ended uprights, and carved with paired flowerheads and pointed leaves atop carved initials 'E P' and a band of trefoil terminal lunettes, the boarded seat with chip-carved sides, the open arms on inverted baluster-turned supports, their design reversed to the front legs, joined by plain stretchers all round
Literature: For a comparable armchair, almost certainly from the same workshop, see Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 88, p. 83
- Height 118 cm / 46 "
- Width 60 cm / 23 3⁄4"
- Depth 59 cm / 23 "
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