A Queen Anne joined oak court cupboard, West Country or South Wales, dated 1713


The upper-section having an end-pendant frieze, carved to the centre with a single daisy flower and the date '17' '13' and flanked by leaf-filled lunettes, the recessed cupboard enclosed by two panelled cupboard doors, each carved with a whorl-filled lozenge, and centred by a fixed panel carved with a lozenge-quatrefoil enclosing further whorls, the whorl design again repeated to the large S-scroll carved on each flanking upright rail and highlighted with floral punched-decoration, the lower-rail with a dog-tooth carved upper edge and a chip-carved lower edge, the lower-section with a pair of triple-panelled cupboard doors, below a whorl-filled guilloche-carved rail and spaced by a similar S-scroll carved upright rail, the base rail lunette-carved, on run-moulded extended stile supports, carved initials 'M H' above the right-hand end pendant, further punched-decoration throughout and some possible black-stained decoration, 137cm wide x 56.5cm deep x 159.5cm high, (53 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 62 1/2in high)