An impressive and good Charles II joined oak and inlaid double panel-back open armchair, South

An impressive and good Charles II joined oak and inlaid double panel-back open armchair, South-West Yorkshire, circa 1670 Profusely and boldly carved, typically having a narrow back panel (inlaid), over a large panel carved with stylized foliage, the large cresting rail carved with paired leafy-scrolls and leafy-buds, carved ears, the uprights unusually extensively foliate carved and with cross-hatched detail, the downswept arms with scroll terminals, on flattened-ball front supports, wrap-around boarded seat, run-moulded seat rails, the front legs again ball-turned and joined all round by plain stretchers,, 56cm wide, 49cm deep, 122cm high An extremely similar chair, almost certainly from the same Yorkshire workshop, formerly in the Gene and Sally Foster Collection and illustrated Victor Chinnery, ‘Oak Furniture: The British Tradition’ (2016), p. 434, fig. 4:132, sold Bonhams, London, 28 March 2018, Lot 148, (£21, 250)Simonini collection