An interesting Charles I joined oak and inlaid chest with drawer, circa 1630-40


Carved with the Arms of Richard Kilburne, (1605-1678), of KentThe hinged lid of five panels, the front with a wide central panel carved with arms - [Argent], a chevron [azure] between three bald coots [sable, heads argent and beaks tawny] beneath a visored helm topped by the crest a bald coot [proper] - enclosed within an arcade carved with hybrid serpent-type beasts, flanked by a knot-pattern parquetry-inlaid panel, also within a carved arcade and spaced by shaped foliate-carved pilasters with Ionic capitals, a long drawer below, carved with two serpent-carved reserves within dog-tooth inlaid border, the front stiles with pyramidal boss to base, each side with two upright lozenge-carved panels above a plain horizontal panel, possible historic adaptions, 160.5cm wide x 64cm deep x 104.5cm high, (63in wide x 25in deep x 41in high)
|Provenance:- Property of Richard Kilburne, (1605-1678), Fowlers House, Hawkhurst, Kent.- Reputedly remaining at Fowlers house until the middle of the 19th century, when the then resident, Sir Edmund Hardinge, presented the chest to a descendant of the Kilburne family, a Mr Goodwin Kilburne, who bequeathed the chest to his son, George Goodwin Kilburne, (1839-1924), a painter specializing in accurately drawn interiors.Illustrated:F. G. Roe, Old Oak Furniture (1907), p. 299. The chest is discussed pp. 297 - 300. The author records that after Richard Kilburne died in 1678, having lived at Fowlers House for approximately twenty-eight years, 'he left behind him an elaborately-carved piece of furniture, in the shape of a linen-chest with a long drawer under, having its centre panel decorated with the family arms'Richard Kilburne worked as a lawyer, Staple Inn, London and also published, amongst other works, A Topographie, or Survey, of the County of Kent (1659).