Details
An oak and inlaid armchair
the panelled back inlaid with a vase of flowers and flanked by part-fluted uprights, the top-rail with geometric decoration, the downswept arms tenoned into the block terminals, on turned suppports, with solid seat and ogee rails, on turned tapering legs joined by square section stretchers, stamped I.G., some inlay lost, the back panel with remains of a guilloche arcade, formerly with a cresting, back slither of seat replaced, English, late 16th century
This armchair belongs to a small group of chairs in which the arms are tenoned into the terminal blocks which are surmounted by a knob or finial. They also have similarities in the inlay and parquetry decoration and in the crest rail which in this example is lacking. The origins of the group are unknown.
See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, p.247.
Exhibition:
The Grosvenor House Fair, June 1988 at the BADA Exhibition stand
entitled England at the Tyme of the Armada, item no. 17
the panelled back inlaid with a vase of flowers and flanked by part-fluted uprights, the top-rail with geometric decoration, the downswept arms tenoned into the block terminals, on turned suppports, with solid seat and ogee rails, on turned tapering legs joined by square section stretchers, stamped I.G., some inlay lost, the back panel with remains of a guilloche arcade, formerly with a cresting, back slither of seat replaced, English, late 16th century
This armchair belongs to a small group of chairs in which the arms are tenoned into the terminal blocks which are surmounted by a knob or finial. They also have similarities in the inlay and parquetry decoration and in the crest rail which in this example is lacking. The origins of the group are unknown.
See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, p.247.
Exhibition:
The Grosvenor House Fair, June 1988 at the BADA Exhibition stand
entitled England at the Tyme of the Armada, item no. 17