A MID-17TH CENTURY OAK MARQUETRY COURT CUPBOARD IN ELIZABETHAN STYLE

A MID-17TH CENTURY OAK MARQUETRY COURT CUPBOARD IN ELIZABETHAN STYLE

LEEDS AREA, YORKSHIRE, C.1640-60

the frieze with a scrolling decoration, with leaf motifs and stylised beast's heads, supported by a pair of cup and covers, with Ionic capitals centred with grotesque masks, with three marquetry panels inlaid with bog oak, holly and fruitwood with urns of flowers, with a central cupboard door, the conforming base with a pair of cupboard doors, enclosing a shelf flanked by stylised thistle panels and a guilloche band

146cm high, 142cm wide, 54.7cm deep

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Victor Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition', where several comparable mid-17th century court cupboards in Elizabethan style are illustrated, p.322, fig.3:267, p.471, fig.4: 120 and 472, fig.4:121. For another related example, see Bonham's, 'The Collection of Dr. and Mrs Chris Douglas', Morville Hall, Shropshire', 30th April 2014, lot 14.