A 17th century oak low chair, possibly Batavian, featuring a mask and trailing foliate shaped top rail above a floral urn carved panelled back with corresponding carving to the reverse, flanked by barley twist uprights, with foliate carved panels to the front, raised on front barley twist supportsv and stretcher alongside plain rear supports and stretchers, 94cm high by 64cm wide.

NB: 17th century Batavian chairs are rare Dutch-colonial seating pieces crafted in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Southeast Asia, formed when European chair designs met local Asian craftsmanship, influenced heavily by Tamil woodworkers from India's Coromandel Coast who relocated to Batavia under the VOC, and featured sculpturally carved flowers in relief. Wealthy Dutch colonists in Batavia used ornate furniture to project social rank and maintain European identity in a strict colonial hierarchy.

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