£400 - £600
A CHARLES I OAK BACKSTOOL, CIRCA 1640. The back panel with a run-moulded saltire, each raised segment leaf-and-berry carved, with channel moulded and scroll-carved integral cresting rail, flanked by round-ended fluted carved uprights, the boarded seat above a conforming carved front rail, on block and ring-turned front legs, again with similar carved fluting, plain stretchers, one lacking, 47cm wide x 41cm deep x 89.5cm high,
Provenance: The Peter Gwynn Collection. Formerly at Dame Annis Barn, Epsom, Surrey.
An earlier, but comparable chair, also form the Gwynn Collection is illustrated Tobias Jellinek, 'Early British Chairs and Seats 1500-1700', p.276, pl.381. The author notes how unusual it is to see carving on uprights or seat rails on chairs without arms.
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