A COMMONWEALTH OAK MURAL GLASS CASE

A COMMONWEALTH OAK MURAL GLASS CASE

MID-17TH CENTURY

the arcaded open front carved with scrolling leaves, with a fixed shelf

58.4cm high, 82.2cm wide, 23cm deep

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Victory Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition', pp.339-341 where several comparable boarded glass cases are illustrated. Chinnery notes that 'Cheap and coarsely-made drinking glasses were fairly plentiful even in the middle class homes in the 16th / 17th centuries, but owing to their fragile nature some special system of storing them was a necessity. The answer was a lightly-built case of shelves known as the glass case.'