A matched set of six Charles II joined oak backstools, attributable to South Yorkshire, circa 1680, having a pair of arched splats carved with tight-scrolls centred by a mask, with cusp-profiled upper edge and horse-shoe shaped lower edge with curved projections, the back uprights with inward facing scroll terminals above scratch-carving and applied split-moulding, panelled seat, on block and ball-turned front legs, joined by an elongated ball-turned fore-rail and plain side and rear stretchers; together with another later chair in a similar style (7)
Examples of this type can be seen?Victor Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture, The British Tradition', page 478