A Charles II joined oak panel-back open armchair, South-West Yorkshire, circa 1680


The back panel incised-carved with an all-over design of leafy S-scrolls, the arched double-scroll carved cresting centred by a cross-hatched motif, and positioned over the plain back uprights and multiple scroll-profiled 'ears', the downswept open arms with punched-decoration to the top edge and with prominent scroll-ends, raised on ball-turned supports, with matching front legs, boarded seat and plain stretchers, 58cm wide x 54.5cm deep x 118.5cm high, (22 1/2in wide x 21in deep x 46 1/2in high)