A Charles I joined oak standing livery cupboard with box-top, West Country, circa 1640


The hinged boarded top above a well, the iron strap hinges with maker's stamps, the lunette-carved frieze rails raised on columnar double-ring turned end-columns, enclosing a canted cupboard, with central panelled door, carved with a tulip plant and cable-motifs to the upright rails, each side carved with a filled-lozenge and pointed-leaf spandrels, the lower-section with a cushion moulded gadrooned-carved drawer, on similar columnar-turned front supports, joined by a boarded open undertier, 123.5cm wide x 44.5cm deep x 119.5cm high, (48 1/2in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 47in high)