A rare late 16th century walnut caqueteuse armchair
French, circa 1600
Having an ornately-carved and pierced cresting rail centred by a cartouche-framed mask within a surround carved with bird's head and a female portrait profile, raised on gently splayed rectangular-shaped uprights, the horizontal or flat arms typically angled to the centre and raised on baluster supports around a trapezium seat, the front seat rail delicately carved with a cusped edge, raised on four ring-turned tapering legs, the back uprights forming six-legs in total, joined by channel-moulded stretchers, the front stretcher projecting and overlapping the two front legs, 59cm wide x 43cm deep x 119.5cm high, (23in wide x 16.5in deep x 47in high)
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