A rare Charles I joined oak closed-back and box-seat chair, West Country, circa 1640


The single back-panel carved with a large lozenge, filled with cable motifs and a fleur-de-lys to each cardinal point, the uprights sunken-carved with S-scrolls, and repeated to the top rail below an integral cresting carved with a pair of tight-scrolls and central nulling, the hinged single seat board with triple-reeded edge, above deep rails hatch-carved with crescent motifs, raised on columnar-turned front legs, joined by plain stretchers all round, 46.5cm wide x 42cm deep x 95.5cm high, (18in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 37 1/2in high)