A Charles I joined oak and inlaid court cupboard, North Country, circa 1640


The top with two thin boards, the frieze nulled-carved above a chequer-inlaid band and bicuspid-shaped lower edge, raised on peg-baluster and cup-turned end-columns, in front of a cupboard enclosed by a pair of boarded doors spaced by fixed panels, the lower cupboard of identical form with nulled-carved top rail and bicuspid-shaped base rail, raised on rising-baluster turned front legs, lacking undertier, 173.5cm wide x 54.5cm deep x 135cm high, (68in wide x 21in deep x 53in high)
|Literature:Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), illustrates a comparable cupboard, p. 277, fig. 3:266.