CIRCA 1680

The shape of the armrests and form of leg is almost identical to a chair at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, illustrated in F. Lenygon, Furniture in England from 1660-1760, London, 1924, p. 31, fig. 23, and reproduced here. Whilst there were few established chair-makers in England at this period, one, Thomas Roberts, who was chair-maker to William III is listed as having supplied a bed to the 1st Duke of Montague at Boughton, and hence by association may, in his earlier years, have supplied seat furniture as well.