A rare early 16th century joined oak standing cupboard, Anglo-French, circa 1500-40

A rare early 16th century joined oak standing cupboard, Anglo-French, circa 1500-40
The front following a traditional arrangement for enclosed cupboards dated to the first-half of the 16th century, with three registers, the top with two panelled doors, each carved with an exotic bird resting on a climbing plant with acorns and pecking at berries, centred by a fine tracery pierced panel enclosing a shallow niche, a pair of drawers beneath, each drawer front carved (including under-cut carving) with paired mythical beasts supporting a shield centred by a Christogram, a central panelled cupboard door below, with a pair of panels fully pierced and carved with tracery quatrefoils and centred by a lozenge-shaped flower, flanked by matching fixed panels, each side with six linenfold-carved panels, on extended stile supports, 147cm wide x 62.5cm deep x 168.5cm high, (57 1/2in wide x 24 1/2in deep x 66in high)