A boarded elm and joined oak table-stool, English, circa 1650

A boarded elm and joined oak table-stool, English, circa 1650
The oval drop-leaf top constructed from single-piece boards, each leaf held open by a central loper sliding out from a 'box' fitted to the underside of the fixed top, with slightly curved run-moulded rails, raised on gentle-bulbous columnar-turned legs, joined by plain stretchers, on turned feet, open: 73cm wide x 57cm deep x 55cm high, (28 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 21 1/2in high)