Beschreibung:

A good Charles II joined oak and ash backstool, Yorkshire, circa 1675 Having a pair of arched splats carved with tight-scrolls centred by a mask, a cusp-profiled upper edge, and 'horse-shoe' shaped lower edge unusually filled with a carved and pierced fleur-de-lys, the back uprights with inward facing scroll terminals, ash panelled seat, on block and ball-turned front legs, joined by a baluster-turned fore-rail, the design repeated on the cross rail of the rare low H-form stretcher, 45.5cm wide x 39cm deep x 103.5cm high, (17 1/2in wide x 15in deep x 40 1/2in high) Fußnoten Provenance: Reputedly Harold Peto (d.1933) Collection, Iford Manor, Bradford-on-Avon With Victor Chinnery Illustrated: Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 436, fig. 4:140