Description
A Charles I Oak Standing Livery Cupboard, Circa 1640, possibly Gloucestershire. The top-rail carved with foliate C-scrolls above a pair of panelled cupboard doors in moulded and gouge carved rails flanking a fielded centre panel; each panel carved with a quadripartite motif of trefoils. The sides drilled with a geometric design of vent-holes. The cupboard raised on ring-turned front column-supports, headed by palmate carving, and leading down to a boarded undershelf, with scallop-edged base-rails. 51 in (130.5 cm) high, 53½ (136 cm) wide, 18 in (46 cm) deep. [Provenance: From the Collection of Dr & Mrs Chris Douglas of Morville Hall, Shropshire. Purchased H. W. Keil, Broadway, Worcestershire, 1989.]