A Fine Tall Charles II Oak Back Stool, or Single Chair

Having a most unusual, if not unique, pair of flamboyantly carved back splats, each with a scalloped top edge above a series of ‘S’ scrolls, and stylised leaves, which are to the sides of a drooping flower head. The bottom of the splats has a central cartouche, with an inverted fleurs de lys and the whole is further enriched with crosshatched decoration.

The unusually long split balusters which decorate the uprights are turned in ash, the seat also cut from an ash board.

The chair sits on good bold “ball-turned” legs, with a distinctive ball and fillet cross stretcher.

Having great presence, colour and patina.

English, Yorkshire/Derbyshire, circa 1660-80.

Height 42 inches, width 18 inches, depth 16 inches.

Ref 2555

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