An unusual mid-17th century joined oak, parquetry and marquetry-inlaid court cupboard, with open base, Yorkshire, circa 1650

An unusual mid-17th century joined oak, parquetry and marquetry-inlaid court cupboard, with open base, Yorkshire, circa 1650
The single-piece top board with cushion-moulded and lunette carved lower edge-rail, the frieze inlaid with scrolling flora, centred by an applied female mask with flowing hair and paired moustached and bearded male corner masks, raised on cup-and-cover end-columns, each with gadrooned over palmette carving, enclosing a canted cupboard with central door, both sides with floral inlay, and with further detailed inlay to the central door board including the addition of two birds, all framed by deeply carved and angled rails, the front uprights carved with a male and female term, headed by dentil mouldings, and with bold carved egg-and-tongue base rails, the lower-section with a chequer-banded rail above a cushion-moulded and carved frieze drawer, above an unusual open undertier, enclosed by a twin-arcaded front, each arch carved with alternate lozenge and flowerhead and raised on baluster-profiled pillars with long-haired mask capitals, and spaced by impressive full-height terms, their facial features repeating the frieze masks, all set within inlaid rails, each side with a similar carved arcade, the front of the rear back uprights carved with leaves, the base rails lunette-carved, 137.5cm wide x 45.5cm deep x 129.5cm high, (54in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 50 1/2in high)