An Elizabeth I small joined oak, parquetry-inlaid and paint-highlighted court cupboard, West Country, circa 1590


With boarded top, the frieze carved with interlaced fleur-de-lys lunettes centred by a half-flower carved tablet and conforming quarter-flower corners, on cup-and-cover palmette-carved Ionic capital supports, enclosing a canted cupboard, with each side and the middle boarded door having an applied square dentil bordered central tablet with a raised daisy-flower carved to the centre, framed by parquetry banded inlay with cream-paint highlights, and all within leafy-scroll carved angled rails, a pair of panelled cupboard doors below, each with a stiff-leaf carved arcade, the rail above again carved with leafy-scrolls and daisy flowers, the front stiles also similarly carved, 125.5cm wide x 47cm deep x 121cm high, (49in wide x 18 1/2in deep x 47 1/2in high)