A rare late 16th century joined walnut closed-back chair, French, circa 1560-80


Having a leaf-carved cresting, and back panel carved with a variation of the arms of the Duchy of Burgundy surrounded by flat-scrolls, a single seat board, and seat rails with sunken ogee-profiled lower edge, all legs columnar-turned, the moulded edge of the front stretcher characteristically overlapping the leg blocks, all remaining stretchers left plain, on turned feet, 44cm wide x 45cm deep x 102cm high, (17in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 40in high)
|Provenance:- Ex. C. K. Binns Collection, Cold Overton Hall, Oakham, Leicestershire.- Sold Sotheby's, London, 10th October 1986, Lot 118.- Sold Beedham Antiques, Hungerford, Berkshire, 1999.Illustrated:The Antique Collector, December 1973, p. 298, fig. 3.