A Charles II joined oak double panel-back open armchair, Lancashire, circa 1670


Probably made to commemorate a marriageThe back with two panels, each carved with a lozenge and headed by initialled paired roundels, one pair carved with 'I' and 'K', the other 'M' and 'K', and both panels with matched paired whorl-filled roundels below the lozenge, centred by a stiff-leaf carved upright rail, all below a lunette and double-scroll cresting with integral addorsed leafy S-scrolls, the scroll-ended open arms on columnar-turned supports, the boarded seat with chip-carved sides, the seat rails with narrow run-moulded lower edge, the columnar-turned front legs joined by run-moulded stretchers all round, 60cm wide x 57cm deep x 107cm high, (23 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 42in high)