A CHARLES I OAK OPEN ARMCHAIR

A CHARLES I OAK OPEN ARMCHAIR

WEST COUNTRY, C.1640
the back panel carved with a leafy 'S' scroll filled arcade and centred by a large flowerhead, below a slender double scroll cresting integral to the carved top rail, the downswept scroll ended arms on columnar turned front supports, flanking a boarded seat (historically cut for a commode and refixed), atop bicuspid profiled and lunette carved rails, the inverted baluster front legs joined all round by plain stretchers

109.5cm high, 61cm wide, 55cm deep