AN INCREDIBLY RARE TUDOR HENRY VII/HENRY VIII OAK ENCLOSED A...

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£15,000 - £20,000

AN INCREDIBLY RARE TUDOR HENRY VII/HENRY VIII OAK ENCLOSED ARMCHAIR, ENGLISH, CIRCA 1500-1530. The partly enclosed armchair of tapering form having twin crocketed finials on gently tapered uprights with a silhouette and scroll carved, moulded top rail above a horizontal panel carved with recessed nulling, the twin panelled back extending to seat level flanked by plain panelled sides terminating in square uprights, heavily worn at the top, originally with similar crocketed finials, the multi plank seat above a further twin panelled partly enclosed base, with plain lower and rear stretchers, the rear with further moulded rails, having uprights being heavier at the base, up to seat level then stepping down in depth, 113cm high, 57cm wide and 46cm deep. Note - English Armchairs from the early Tudor period are very scarce items, rarely surviving in a complete form without extensive restorations. This unusual format chair remains in original form and retaining an untouched colour and surface patination. Provenance - Maurice Goldstone Private Collection, Goldstone Antiques, Bakewell Derbyshire. Purchased from Michael Goldstone in the mid 1980’s. Maurice Goldstone established his early furniture business in Bakewell in the 1950’s. In the 1960’s he purchased numbers of early pieces directly from Haddon Hall estate workers cottagers, it is thought this Armchair was one of such items: Credit, Michael Goldstone.

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good early example.