An Early 19thC Painted Open Armchair c.1830 sub-Antiques this suggestive piece of salvage

this suggestive piece of salvage is in as found

though is apparently unsigned

and it played a significant role in both the Babington and the Gunpowder plots

It began as "Modern French" style in England in the 1820s

An Early 19thC Painted Open Armchair c.1830 sub-Antiques this suggestive piece of salvageOrigin: EnglishPeriod: William IV Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1830Height: 39 or 19 at seatWidth: 24Depth: 21. 5 (all at extremities)The handsome original russet painted beech and pine framed open armchair with an attractive worn colour and patination to the paint, having a bar back to undulating curved and scrolled arms, with a two plank seat, the whole on block legs joined by stretchers, surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century.