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A rare Elizabeth I walnut, chestnut and Japanned table cabinet, circa 1580-1600.
Having a hinged canted top, enclosing a well, the geometric applied frieze unusually decorated in gilt, with two resting stags against a black ground, the lockable fall-front again with applied elongated-pyramidal mouldings, opening to reveal an interior of five small drawers with geometric and landscape decoration against a vermillion ground. Further painted landscape decoration to the sides.
For a comparable inlaid table cabinet, dated 1570, see the collection at Melford Hall, Suffolk (NT926575) and illustrated Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture (1986), Vol. I, p. 101, fig. 4.
Dimensions
Height 37cm, Width 35cm, Depth 26cmCondition report
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