A Charles I joined oak panel-back open armchair, Gloucestershire, circa 1640

The back panel deeply carved with a cable-filled arcade raised on broad pillars, each containing a single flowerhead, below a pierced scroll-carved cresting and integral cable-carved top rail, flanked by reverse scroll headed uprights, the gently downswept arms with an ornately profiled underside, raised on baluster-turned supports, the splayed trapezium-shaped seat in the caqueteuse manner, with ovolo-moulded and chip-carved edges, above bicuspid-shaped and cushion run-moulded rails, on baluster-turned front legs, joined by run-moulded stretchers all round, the back uprights with a similar run moulding and also punched-decorated above the seat, the front leg blocks carved with a stiff-leaf motif to each outer face, and repeated to the top of each scroll upright finial, 65.5cm wide x 55cm deep x 117cm high, (25 1/2in wide x 21 1/2in deep x 46in high)