A Charles II oak panel back armchair, Wales second half 17th century

the cresting rail and twin panelled back with incised roundel carving and conjoined heart motifs, with shaped arms and boarded seat, on chamfered square legs joined by peripheral stretchers

Illustrated Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats from 1500 to 1700, Woodbridge, Forthcoming (2009), pl. 69.

Lovely colour and patination together with a lot of wear consistent with age and use. Old loss on cresting rail. Splits, separation and losses throughout. Fragmenting to arms, with old worm. Partial split in one front leg. Fragmenting to stretchers. Reverse of chair untidy with a lot of fragmenting and some old worm. This is an evocative lot with the honest traces of wear from over three hundred and fifty years of domestic use.
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