A rare James II joined oak and fruitwood clerks's cupboard, Lake District, dated 1686


Having a shallow fixed superstructure incorporating a cupboard, enclosed by two pairs of spindle-filled open doors, centred by a panel carved with the initials and date 'W J 1686', above a pair of single-board slopes, each with a bookrest and enclosing a deep well, over a pair of mitre-moulded drawers and two large panelled cupboard doors centred by a fixed panel, the top front rail carved with scrolls, the remaining rails with a central flat run-moulding and mainly with applied mitred-mouldings to simulate narrow panels, boarded and quadruple-panelled sides, 205cm wide x 63.5cm deep x 172cm high, (80 1/2in wide x 25in deep x 67 1/2in high)
|Literature:See An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland (1936), p. 40, for a comparable illustrated cupboard, dated 1694, at Dallam Tower, Milnthorpe, Cumbria.