An interesting Charles I oak joint stool, West Country, circa 1630


The top with six-pegs and double-reeded edge, the rails with a central run-moulding, shallow relief-carved to one long rail with a pointed-ogee design, and repeated to all remaining rails by a customary incised technique, furthermore all rails have an unusual concave profiled lower edge, the baluster-turned legs with lower ring-turning, and joined by plain stretchers all round, 46cm wide x 25.5cm deep x 57cm high, (18in wide x 10in deep x 22in high)