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Auction archive: Lot number 116*

An extremely rare and documented Elizabeth I oak so-called Glastonbury chair, West Country, circa 1570

The Oak Interior
19 Feb 2020
Estimate
£30,000 - £40,000
ca. US$38,944 - US$51,926
Price realised:
£37,562
ca. US$48,761
Auction archive: Lot number 116*

An extremely rare and documented Elizabeth I oak so-called Glastonbury chair, West Country, circa 1570

The Oak Interior
19 Feb 2020
Estimate
£30,000 - £40,000
ca. US$38,944 - US$51,926
Price realised:
£37,562
ca. US$48,761
Beschreibung:

Of pegged construction, the raked back of three boards, typically carved with paired guilloche-filled arches but unusually centred by a defaced shield framed by well-carved floral scrolls, the scroll-shaped cresting line-carved with pairs of downward-pointing leaves, the centre again defaced, each back upright with multiple fine run-mouldings and integral pyramidal-finial, the arms with accentuated raised 'elbow-rest', the seat of two boards grooved into run-moulded side rails, and with hand-shaped 'rod-form' front and rear rails, the simple legs forming X-form side supports, joined by a hand-shaped central stretcher, 61cm wide x 56cm deep x 101cm high, (24in wide x 22in deep x 39 1/2in high)

Auction archive: Lot number 116*
Auction:
Datum:
19 Feb 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Oxford Banbury Road Shipton-on-Cherwell Kidlington Oxford OX5 1JH Tel: +44 1865 853640 Fax : +44 1865 372722 oxford@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Of pegged construction, the raked back of three boards, typically carved with paired guilloche-filled arches but unusually centred by a defaced shield framed by well-carved floral scrolls, the scroll-shaped cresting line-carved with pairs of downward-pointing leaves, the centre again defaced, each back upright with multiple fine run-mouldings and integral pyramidal-finial, the arms with accentuated raised 'elbow-rest', the seat of two boards grooved into run-moulded side rails, and with hand-shaped 'rod-form' front and rear rails, the simple legs forming X-form side supports, joined by a hand-shaped central stretcher, 61cm wide x 56cm deep x 101cm high, (24in wide x 22in deep x 39 1/2in high)

Auction archive: Lot number 116*
Auction:
Datum:
19 Feb 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Oxford Banbury Road Shipton-on-Cherwell Kidlington Oxford OX5 1JH Tel: +44 1865 853640 Fax : +44 1865 372722 oxford@bonhams.com
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