A Charles I joined oak panel-back open armchair, Gloucestershire, circa 1630


The back panel carved with a flowerhead-filled quatrefoil, below a double scroll-carved cresting and integral top rail carved with a run of pointed-leaf ended guilloche, the back uprights each carved with a stiff-leaf above the downswept and punched-decorated arms, raised on baluster and ring-turned front supports, their design repeated on the front legs, joined all round by stretchers with run-moulded top edge, boarded seat, 56cm wide x 52.5cm deep x 111.5cm high, (22in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 43 1/2in high)