A rare mid-17th century joined oak and elm box-stool, English, circa 1650
The 'box' retaining its original interior with fitted boards divided into three compartments, enclosed by hinged seat boards with ovolo-moulded edge, each side carved and punched-decorated with a large single lunette, raised on multiple ring-turned legs, united by plain stretchers all round, original iron lock, 40.5cm wide x 38cm deep x 44cm high, (15 1/2in wide x 14 1/2in deep x 17in high)
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Provenance:The John & Judith Adler CollectionSold Sotheby's, 'The Adler Collection', London, 24 February 2005, Lot 155Illustrated:Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 258, pl. 351. The author refers to this box-stool as 'fine and rare' For a comparable box-stool, with similar carved decoration and interior divisions which are often lacking, see Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 227, figs. 3:107 & 3:108.