A Charles I joined oak panel-back open armchair, North Country, circa 1640


The back of notable rake, the slender upright panel carved with a stylized vine-flowering stem on a half-round mound and centred by a flower-filled lozenge, with further decoration in the form of small whorls, the double-scroll and flaccid-leaf carved cresting set between channel-moulded uprights, the accentuated downswept and scroll-ended arms on high columnar-turned supports, double-boarded seat on lower-edge moulded rails, with matching columnar-turned front legs joined by narrow run-moulded stretchers all round, 62cm wide x 67cm deep x 115.5cm high, (24in wide x 26in deep x 45in high)