AN ELIZABETH I / JAMES I OAK COFFER

AN ELIZABETH I / JAMES I OAK COFFER

C.1600-20

with a quadruple panelled hinged top, the front with four panels each chequered inlaid around a slender rhombus carved boss, the top rail deeply carved with fan filled lunettes above a band of chequered dog-tooth inlay, similar inlay to the muntin rails, the stiles with gouge carved decoration

69.7cm high, 133.5cm wide, 585cm deep

Provenance

Verbal communication with previous vendor - 'This coffer came from my mothers' Herefordshire family, the Jays of Litley Court and Derndale, post 1830. The Jays were connected by marriage to the Carpenters, Taylors and James families, all county gentry. We always liked to think Thomas Carpenter of Tillington Court Hereford, may have owned it’.