At the sale of the Marquis of Anglesey's furniture from Beaudesert at Christie's, on 12th January 1905, there was an exceptional chair which fetched the high price of three hundred guineas. It was described as a 'Charles 11. oak chair, with rounded back, pierced and carved with flowers and foliage, on boldly carved legs and stretchers and claw feet.' The rocaille work and C-curves, cabriole legs and claw feet, which were its characteristics, showed that the ascription to the period of Charles 11. was a wrong one. The eighteenth century must have seen, perhaps, three decades before this chair was made, and English or French, it belongs to the period we are reviewing. The round back and seat, however, are perhaps found of an earlier date. There is in the Victoria and Albert Museum a chair (No. 98) upon six turned legs, connected by two circular frames corresponding to the circumference of the seat. Rails lead from each leg and meet in the centre like the spokes of a wheel. The back has four slanting supports, in the spaces between which are three oval splats filled in with cane-work. On the supports there appears the elongated rosette described before as peculiar to the Carolean chair.

The top rail of the back has incised carving, such as might have been done in the early seventeenth century. This chair, stated to be Dutch, is dated 1640 - a very early year for the appearance of the rosette.