A rare Elizabeth I joined oak 'caqueteuse' open armchair, circa 1580

A rare Elizabeth I joined oak 'caqueteuse' open armchair, circa 1580
The single broad back-panel having a nulled-carved arch enclosed within a shallow dentil-moulded and crescent-carved arcade with leaf-and-berry carved spandrels, the top rail's scroll-shaped top edge carved with slender serpents, the back uprights carved with stop-fluting over flat-arms crooked in the middle and carved with lozenge-shaped motifs, on well-carved fluted baluster front supports, the seats rails with a scroll profiled lower edge, and with a cross carved to the centre of the front seat rail, the front legs match the arm supports but with the addition of a finely carved lower reel, historically lacking stretchers and reduced in height, 66.5cm wide x 52cm deep x 96.5cm high, (26in wide x 20in deep x 37 1/2in high)