A James I joined oak and inlaid court cupboard, West Country, circa 1625


The frieze carved with leaf-filled lunettes and with an egg-and-dart lower edge, raised on foliate and fluted carved inverted-baluster and reel-turned end-columns, the recessed cupboard enclosed by a pair of panelled cupboard doors, each carved with a guilloche arcade centred by an inlaid knot-pattern, the central fixed panel with similar inlay and a stiff-leaf carved arch raised on stop-fluted columns, the lower-section with a pair of quadruple-panelled cupboard doors, each panel carved with a stylized foliate-filled lozenge, the majority of horizontal rails carved with a running cable motif, on extended stile supports, 148cm wide x 58cm deep x 168cm high, (58in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 66in high)