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


The tall back panel robustly carved with a leaf-filled and cross-hatched roundel centred lozenge, with matching leafy spandrels, with slender lunette-carved top rail integral to the double-scroll leaf-carved cresting, and positioned over the run-moulded uprights and scroll-profiled 'ears', the latter unusually carved to both the front and rear, the shaped horizontal arms with a small disc carved into the outer face of each scroll end, on tall columnar-turned front supports, the boarded seat wrapping around the supports and with a double-reeded edge, the front legs also columnar-turned and joined all round by plain stretchers, 65cm wide x 54cm deep x 124cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 21in deep x 48 1/2in high)