A rare Elizabeth I oak joint stool, circa 1580
The top with eight pegs and narrow moulded edge, the bicuspid-shaped rails carved with broad nulling, raised on slender baluster-turned and stop-fluted carved splayed legs joined by rare bicuspid-shaped stretchers, which follow the profile of the top rails and with linear gauge-carved decoration, 46.5cm wide x 27cm deep x 51.5cm high, (18in wide x 10 1/2in deep x 20in high)