A splendid Elizabeth I joined oak and inlaid panel-back open armchair, Gloucestershire, circa 1600

A splendid Elizabeth I joined oak and inlaid panel-back open armchair, Gloucestershire, circa 1600
The back panel designed with an inlaid knot-pattern, enclosed within an arcade carved with alternating roundels and lozenges and four-petal flowerhead and paired pointed leaf-carved spandrels, the top rail with an unusual overhang terminating in short inlaid uprights with ball finial and acorn pendant, and carved with a pair of grotesque-scrolls supporting a shield carved with the initials 'G H', the arched-shaped cresting again carved with grotesque heads and with rare linear-carved detail to the rear, the back uprights leafy-carved and the lower back rail carved with cable motifs, the downswept open arms on parallel-baluster front supports, single seat board with narrow moulded edge, cable-carved seat rails, the baluster-turned front legs with lozenge chequer-inlaid blocks, the stretchers with upper and lower moulded edges, 57cm wide x 50cm deep x 119cm high, (22in wide x 19 1/2in deep x 46 1/2in high)