A Charles II oak joined stool third quarter 17th century

the moulded seat above a channelled frieze, the square and bobbin turned legs joined by peripheral stretchers, with turned feet

Illustrated Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats from 1500 to 1700, Woodbridge, Forthcoming (2009), pl. 319.

Tidy and of firm stance. Very attractive colour and patina throughout. Some movement of seat as loose on pegs. The good seat with typical partial splits, old marks and scratches. Partial old fragmenting on corners of seat. Moulded frieze tidy. There is old splitting in the upper square sections of the legs on the peg sites and two of the legs with fragmenting on the concealed areas of these leg sections showing in the under frame. The bobbin turning with typical partial splits and one square section of a lower leg with split. Some partial old fragmenting on stretchers and fragmenting on turned feet. The lower parts of the legs and the stretchers with traces of old worm.
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