An impressive Charles I joined and boarded oak mural trencher case, circa 1640


The upper shelf with dentil-moulded frieze and five leaf-carved arcades raised on columnar-turned supports, the lower shelf enclosed by a spindle-filled gallery, the central section pin-hinged as a door, 140cm wide x 16cm deep x 61.5cm high, (55in wide x 6in deep x 24in high)
|Provenance:Collection of J. Thorpe Perry, Pendower House, Cavendish Crescent North, The Park, NottinghamSold Turner Fletcher Essex Auctioneers, Pelham Street, Nottingham, October 1941, lot 446John Thorpe Perry of the Park, Nottingham, was the son of John Maddock Perry, manufacturer and merchant of Nottingham. He was born at Park Terrace in 1860 and admitted a solicitor in 1881. In 1919, he commemorated the deaths in the First World War of his nephews Roby Myddleton Gotch and Philip Joseph Crook in a stained-glass window in Nottingham's High Pavement Unitarian Chapel. In 1966, the Thorpe Perry estate bequeathed money to Nottingham City Museums & Art Galleries. In the 1970s, the money was used to purchase the Gatty loan collection of Webb family furniture from Newstead Abbey, amongst other things.A related trencher case, but with only four arcades and simple scratch-carving, formerly in the celebrated collection of John Fardon, sold Christie's, South Kensington, 1 May, Lot 305. It is illustrated in Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture The British Tradition (2016). p.292, fig 3:323, and annotated 'This piece might [have been] used to store a variety of items including treenware, glassware, pewter or horn mugs, and delftware'.