A pair of Charles II joined oak backstools, Lancashire, circa 1680


Each having a back panel carved with a pointed-leaf quatrefoil centred by a wild rose, the arched scroll-profiled cresting with unusual paired circular piercings, the uprights with pyramid-finials, the boarded seat above run-moulded rails, raised on block and ball-turned legs, joined by a similar turned fore-rail and plain stretchers, on turned feet, 47cm wide x 42cm deep x 100cm high, (18 1/2in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 39in high) (2)