A COMMONWEALTH OAK MURAL GLASS CASE
A COMMONWEALTH OAK MURAL GLASS CASE
MID-17TH CENTURY
the arcaded open front carved with scrolling leaves, with a fixed shelf
58.4cm high, 82.2cm wide, 23cm deep
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Catalogue Note
See Victory Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition', pp.339-341 where several comparable boarded glass cases are illustrated. Chinnery notes that 'Cheap and coarsely-made drinking glasses were fairly plentiful even in the middle class homes in the 16th / 17th centuries, but owing to their fragile nature some special system of storing them was a necessity. The answer was a lightly-built case of shelves known as the glass case.'
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A COMMONWEALTH OAK MURAL GLASS CASE
MID-17TH CENTURY
the arcaded open front carved with scrolling leaves, with a fixed shelf
58.4cm high, 82.2cm wide, 23cm deep
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
Catalogue Note
See Victory Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition', pp.339-341 where several comparable boarded glass cases are illustrated. Chinnery notes that 'Cheap and coarsely-made drinking glasses were fairly plentiful even in the middle class homes in the 16th / 17th centuries, but owing to their fragile nature some special system of storing them was a necessity. The answer was a lightly-built case of shelves known as the glass case.'