A large Charles I joined oak and inlaid enclosed cupboard, with fold-over top, circa 1640


The dodecagonal top formed from four particularly thick boards and opening on a rear gate support, the cupboard having a panelled door with applied chip and dog-tooth carved rails, flanked by canted lunette-carved panels within similarly carved framing rails, and all within chequer-inlaid rails, a prominent geometric-carved waist moulding, raised on four baluster-turned legs joined by a boarded undertier, closed: 123.5cm wide x 61cm deep x 84.5cm high, (48 1/2in wide x 24in deep x 33in high)
|Provenance:Sotheby's, London, 'The Age of Oak', Property of a Private Collector, 14 September 2005, Lot 62