Elizabeth I inlaid box
Circa 1600
Possibly London
W 28 1/2" × H 13 3/4" × D 19 1/2"
Stock # Marh2501
£8,250.00
Elizabeth I inlaid and carved oak box, the lower section with a single drawer carved with nulled decoration and applied fluted columns, above this two inlaid panels of floral designs with similar designs to each side. The oak lid open to reveal a lined interior with decoration of the order of the garter printed paper, and on the underside of the lid an inventory label from the early 17th century listing the contents.
A similar example in the Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/203878 once the property of Erwin Untermyer, and most certainly made by the same hand. And another box by the same hand in the Plimoth Museum, MA
Inventory label reads:
4 grat tabell cloes
4 Letel tabell cloes
2 doufon of cors napking
6 littell napkins