A RARE AND WELL DOCUMENTED ELIZABETH I OAK COURT CUPBOARD OR THREE TIER BUFFET

A RARE AND WELL DOCUMENTED ELIZABETH I OAK COURT CUPBOARD OR THREE TIER BUFFET

C.1580 AND LATER

the top shelf with front leafy carved drop finials, supported by two turned rear supports, and a magnificent central front support carved with paired lion rampant centred by a fluted column and a scrolled ‘guild mark’, the second shelf again supported by turned rear columns and thick turned and fluted cup-and-cover front supports, the later lower shelf on block feet

130.2cm high, 127.5cm wide, 56.5cm deep

Provenance

Mrs Geoffry Hart Collection,

Sam Wolsey Collection.

The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Literature

Illustrated in ‘Connoisseurs Complete Guide to Antique English Furniture’ (1961), p.61.Also illustrated in Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. II, p. 182, fig. 8