James I oak mural cupboard
Circa 1610
West Country
W 38 3/4" × H 35 1/4" × D 12 1/2"
Stock # Marh2509
£28,000.00
James I mural livery cupboard, with parquetry inlay, having a pair of cupboard doors, each with turned spindles over a scroll fretted panel, a small cupboard below enclosed by boarded door with applied gadrooned-carved frame, a further panel either side, flanked by carved male and female figures, each side carved with a single stiff-leaf within an arch. (later dated inside 1642 with initials B T E)
Provenance: Private collection, Canada.
Illustrated: Living with Early Oak. John Fiske and Lisa Freeman Figure 4.21 page 83. And again illustrated: When oak was new. John Fiske and Lisa Freeman page 119.
A mural cupboard owned by Marhamchurch Antiques, made in the same workshop as this current example sold in Bonhams London, 24th Feb 2016, lot 403 for £25,000 (last image shown here)