A rare Elizabeth I oak joint stool, circa 1600


Having an ovolo-moulded top, the rails with central flat run-moulding and lower moulded edge, the heavy legs with a fluted-carved parallel-baluster over an accentuated reel-turning, joined by plain stretchers all round, 44cm wide x 26cm deep x 52cm high, (17in wide x 10in deep x 20in high)
|Provenance:With S. W. Wolsey, Buckingham Gate, LondonSold Sotheby's, 'An Important Collection of Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Furniture - Formed Under the Guidance of R. W. Symonds', London, 28 May 1982, Lot 22The John & Judith Adler CollectionOffered Sotheby's, London, 24 February 2005, lot 118Sold Sotheby's, 'The Age of Walnut and Oak', London, 14 September 2005, Lot 118Literature:Illustrated Edward T. Joy, Chairs (1980), p. 26, fig. 8.Exhibited:The Merchant's House, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 2005 - 2018.