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Rare and Documented Pair of Charles II Long Joined Oak Benches, c. 1674Inventory Number: : 210-101 Price: $ 24,000 Seat: 124 1/4 ins wide, 10 3/4 ins deep and 22 1/4 ins high For more information please contact us TELEPHONE. 917 414 1827 EMAIL. [email protected] www.michaelpashbyantiques.com © Michael Pashby Antiques.
DESCRIPTIONEach having a single-board top with square-rounded edge and applied under-edge molding, the plain rails with applied lower edge molding on eight elegant baluster-turned legs, joined by capped stretchers on turned feet. Provenance: These benches formed part of a set of at least eight benches furnishing the refectory of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, London, that was formed in 1403, receiving its royal charter from Queen Mary I in 1557. Literature: Recorded in a lithograph by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) in Philip Norman's “The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds” (1910). Also recorded in F. Litchfield “Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time” (1893). English, Charles II, 1674
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