24 May 2012
12:00 BST
Chester
The Beedham Collection: Selected Oak Furniture & Works of Art 1450 - 1750
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The Beedham Collection: Selected Oak Furniture & Works of Art 1450 - 1750
Back to auction 20460
A rare Elizabeth I/James I oak cupboard on stand
Circa 1600-10
The upper section with guilloche-carved frieze raised on turned guilloche and petal-carved end columns, enclosing a pair of applied mitre-moulded and lozenge chequer-inlaid cupboard doors, the lower-section with a guilloche-carved long drawer raised on inverted baluster-fluted front supports, the enclosed back with chequer pattern carved rear stiles, joined by an undertier, 115cm wide x 59cm deep x 147cm high, (45" wide x 23" deep x 57.5" high)
The upper section with guilloche-carved frieze raised on turned guilloche and petal-carved end columns, enclosing a pair of applied mitre-moulded and lozenge chequer-inlaid cupboard doors, the lower-section with a guilloche-carved long drawer raised on inverted baluster-fluted front supports, the enclosed back with chequer pattern carved rear stiles, joined by an undertier, 115cm wide x 59cm deep x 147cm high, (45" wide x 23" deep x 57.5" high)
Sold for
£31,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: H. W. Keil's private collection. Formerly part of the Keil Museum, Broadway; a museum formed from Bill Keil's personal collection, containing pieces that had been acquired from the 1930s onwards and which were 'not for sale' at any price. An oak livery cupboard, presumably from the same workshop, of conforming form and decoration, sold The Keil Sale, Sotheby's Olympia, July 2004, Lot 121.
Comparative Literature: H. Cescinsky & E. Gribble, Early English Furniture and Woodwork (1922), illustrates a buffet with similar chequer and channel run carving to the rear stiles, p. 81, fig. 111.
Exhibited: Beedham Antiques Ltd, Essentially English, BADA 90th Anniversary Exhibition.
Category: Furniture / Oak Furniture
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