A Charles I joined oak panel-back open armchair, circa 1640


Having a single-piece plain back panel, and a double-scroll and round-ended guilloche-carved cresting rail positioned over the back uprights, the downswept open arms on baluster-turned front supports, a near one-piece seat board and narrow mouldings to the lower edges of the seat rails, with rising-baluster turned front legs, joined by plain stretchers all round, 57.5cm wide x 58cm deep x 103.5cm high, (22 1/2in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 40 1/2in high)