A mid-17th century joined oak and marquetry-inlaid panel-back open armchair, Yorkshire, circa 1640-60 and later

The back panel with an inlaid design of two birds resting within stylized flowers emanating from a twin-handled vase, the prominent arched and scroll-outlined cresting carved with foliage, the punched-decorated downswept arms on squat baluster-turned supports, boarded seat, with columnar-turned front legs, joined all round by plain stretchers, restorations, 61cm wide x 55cm deep x 126cm high, (24in wide x 21 1/2in deep x 49 1/2in high)

Literature:
See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), for an inlaid panel-back open armchair with a similar cresting in the Burrell Collection [14.215], p. 468 fig. 4:114.