A CHARLES II OAK PANELLED BACK ARMCHAIR

A CHARLES II OAK PANELLED BACK ARMCHAIR

YORKSHIRE, C.1670 AND LATER

with bog oak and holly chevron banding, the scroll carved cresting above a tulip frieze and a panel decorated with stylised cross hatched flowerheads

Catalogue Note.

For an extremely similar chair see the Towneley Hall Museum collection, Burnley, Long Gallery, Bedroom VI. Further examples can be found at Temple Newsam, West Yorkshire, see 'Oak Furniture from Lancashire and Lake District', Temple Newsam catalogue 1973; and the Lower Hall, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire. The distinctive similarities in carving and design would indicate manufacture by a particular workshop/group, see Victor Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition', pp. 472-477.