A rare Charles I joined oak and upholstered armchair, with English turkeywork cover, circa 1640
REF: 4493
Having a slender rectangular padded back and stuff-over seat covered in floral turkeywork, scroll-ended open arms on columnar-turned front supports, similar turned front legs joined all round by plain stretchers
Provenance: With S. W. Wolsey, Buckingham Gate, London. Private Collection, Northumberland. The period turkeywork supplied by Victor Chinnery
For a comparable chair, albeit of slightly later date, in the celebrated John Bryan Collection, see Victor Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition' (2016), p. 106, fig. 2.141b. See also Ibid., p. 102, fig. 2:140c for a seat cover of comparable design, circa 1640, with separate, individual floral elements to the design, compared to the later more abundant designs of circa 1680
Turkeywork is made by knotting and trimming woollen threads through a woven canvas, to create a carpet-type material with a pile. The technique was developed in England during the 16th century, for furnishing, in imitation of imported rugs from Spain, Turkey and the Middle East.
- Height 92.5 cm / 36 "
- Width 58 cm / 23"
- Depth 53 cm / 21"
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