Elizabeth I inlaid backstool
Circa 1580
England
W 20 3/4" × H 40 3/4" × D 14 3/4"
Stock # Marh2495
£12,000.00
Elizabeth I joined oak backstool, the column turned legs joined by plain stretcher rails and cutout seat rails with a boarded seat cut deep to form a framed panel with the initials MT, above this the back rest panel with chequer inlaid panels and a large centre panel with applied mouldings and an inlaid vase with flowers, above this the cresting rail carved with S-scrolls and applied ornament.
Possibly one of the finest and earliest examples of it type