A rare and documented Charles II joined oak table-settle, Lancashire, circa 1670


Formerly referred to as a 'chimney settle' - the centre of the back is raised - and with a hinged board supported on a silhouette baluster and pierced leg when open, over a narrow panel and flanked by floral-carved panels over raised and fielded panels, the slender back uprights with pyramidal-finials, the downswept scroll-ended arms on columnar-turned front supports, twin-boarded seat, the seat rails with lower run-moulded edge, with similar columnar ring-turned legs, joined by run-moulded stretchers all round, 141cm wide x 56.5cm deep x 148.5cm high, (55 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 58in high)
|Provenance:Former collection of Mrs Graham Rees-Mogg, Clifford Manor, Stratford-Upon-Avon.Illustrated:Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture (1986), Vol. III, p. 113. fig. 11.In 1922, an English oak boarded chest, circa 1500, was bought on The Victoria and Albert Museums behalf by Mrs Rees-Mogg, from Frank Jennings, 12 Holland Street, London, [no. W.428-1922A]. In 1923 Mrs Rees-Mogg donated further items to the museum, including a 16th century oak Glastonbury chair,[no. W.232-1923].