A Charles II joined oak, snakewood and rosewood veneered, mother-of-pearl and bone-inlaid enclosed chest of drawers, dated 1664


The boarded top with applied ovolo-moulded edge, above a dentil-moulded under-frieze, over a long drawer divided into three-sections by paired corbels, the tablet to the centre inlaid with a scrolling design using small pieces of bone and mother-of-pearl and bearing the date '1664', a deep drawer below, with paired circular applied mouldings within octagons centred by a raised moulded arch below a tablet, over a pair of doors also with octagonal and circular applied mouldings, and all with similar inlay and applied split-baluster mouldings, the doors enclosing three drawers, on turned feet, 118cm wide x 59cm deep x 130.5cm high, (46in wide x 23in deep x 51in high)
|Provenance:According to the hand-written note pasted into the top drawer, this was the property of Miss Wolfstan of Tamworth Castle, Staffordshire who died in 1861. This is probably a reference to Miss Hester Wolfestan, who rented the castle between 1844 and 1861.According to the note, she bequeathed this chest to Minshall Thomas of Gloucester [?] who in turn bequeathed it to his son [Sir?] Temple Thomas of Marylebone in 1862.