The Property of a Lady: Lots 600 - 610
Lot 610
A James I oak panel back armchair
Of rare design
9 September 2010, 10:00 BST
ChesterSold for £3,360 inc. premium
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Of rare design
The back foliate and thistle-carved beneath scroll-carved and cut toprail, the boarded seat with chip-carved edge flanked by downswept arms raised on baluster-turned front supports, the seat rails guilloche-carved, raised on ring-turned front supports united by rectangular-section stretchers, 59cm wide x 53cm deep x 107cm high, (23in wide x 20.5in deep x 42in high)
The back foliate and thistle-carved beneath scroll-carved and cut toprail, the boarded seat with chip-carved edge flanked by downswept arms raised on baluster-turned front supports, the seat rails guilloche-carved, raised on ring-turned front supports united by rectangular-section stretchers, 59cm wide x 53cm deep x 107cm high, (23in wide x 20.5in deep x 42in high)
Footnotes
An armchair with a back panel of near identical carved thistles illustrated Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats, 1500 to 1700, p. 59, pl. 29, sold Sotheby's Clive Sherwood Collection, lot 306, £37,600.