An impressive Elizabeth I joined walnut, oak and parquetry-inlaid canted court cupboard, Dorset, circa 1590

An impressive Elizabeth I joined walnut, oak and parquetry-inlaid canted court cupboard, Dorset, circa 1590
With rare pierced 'lantern' feet, the front frieze with two fully parquetry-inlaid reserves, leafy-carved corbels and lunette-carved sides, on open cup-and-cover end-supports, each with a variety of reeding and palmette carving and Ionic capital, the central door and sides of the canted cupboard framed by navette-carved rails and centred with parquetry-inlay, the long drawer below lunette-carved with fleur-de-lys terminals, on similar turned and carved front supports, joined by an open undertier, 120.5cm wide x 42cm deep x 127.5cm high, (47in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 50in high)