A Charles I joined and boarded oak court cupboard, Derbyshire, circa 1630


Interestingly carved throughout, and mainly using Elizabethan motifs, the frieze carved with four-petal flowerheads on a repeating alternate axis, and raised on baluster-turned end-columns headed by mastic-inlaid initials 'RT' and 'IT', one column also owner stamped 'RT', in front of a recessed cupboard, enclosed by a pair of boarded doors carved with a daisy-filled lattice design, and centred by a fixed panel carved with a hexagram, centred by a rose-head and with whorl-carved spandrels, flanked by broad uprights carved with a flowering plant, above a pair of panelled cupboard doors, the slender top panel nulled-carved, their design unusually repeated on narrow upright panels to each cupboard end next to a strap-work carved upright rail, each side formed from a single board, restorations, 179cm wide x 52.5cm deep x 162cm high, (70in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 63 1/2in high)