A PAIR OF CHARLES II OAK JOINED SIDE CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF CHARLES II OAK JOINED SIDE CHAIRS
MID-17TH CENTURY, SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Each with scroll-carved ladder back hung with spindles above a later drop-in seat, on baluster-turned legs joined by stretchers (2)

Provenance

The Broadhead Collection, Up Cerne Manor, Dorset, sold Christie's London, 12 June 1980, lot 140

Lot Essay

A virtually identical chair from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in J.C. Rogers, English Furniture, rev. edn., 1967, p. 45, fig. 13; another similar is illustrated in V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition, 1979, p.478, fig. 4:139.