Museum
Oak panel-back armchair

Description
An early 17th-century oak panel back armchair of caqueteuse form; the arched cresting carved with a cherub head with wings above a lunnette band; the large panel with moulded fielding filled with flower heads and palmettes and flanked with S-cable uprights; the flat shaped arms raised on carved baluster-turned supports; the shaped single-plank seat over moulded and profile-shaped rails, raised on carved baluster-turned legs and plain stretchers; English, Salisbury (probably from the Beckham family workshop, the crest carved by Humphrey Beckham), c.1620; the cresting broken and re-applied with inserted later fillet; edges of seat re-cut; new patches to seat-rail shaping; lower part of legs and stretchers replaced.