Panel-back armchair

Description

A mid 17th century oak panel-back armchair; the shaped and applied cresting with strapwork edge and containing a leafy spray, surmounting a cresting rail carved with a coat of arms (The Corbett Crow ?) flanked by S-scroll dragons and raised on scrolled earpieces (the cresting rail with carved initials HP); the large panel carved with an arch and filed with a spray of flowers and leaves, flanked by carved uprights; the scrolled arms on baluster-turned supports; the single-plank seat with front edge-moulded above channel-moulded rails; raised on baluster-turned legs and plain stretchers; English, Worcestershire, c.1640.