AN ELIZABETHAN OAK BOARDED STOOL AND CHEST
AN ELIZABETHAN OAK BOARDED STOOL AND CHEST

LATE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER

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AN ELIZABETHAN OAK BOARDED STOOL AND CHEST
LATE 16TH CENTURY AND LATER
Each carved with portrait roundels, the stool stamped IB
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) wide, 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) deep, the stool
Provenance
Morgan S. Williams; Christie's, London, 26-28 April 1921, lot 437 (to Duveen for £325 10) (the chest).
Rogers Fund, 1921 (the stool and chest).
Literature
P. Macquoid, History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak, London, 1904, p. 71, figs. 61a, 61b.
M.R.R., 'A Group of Oak Furniture', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, July 1921, p. 148, figs. 2, 3.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, Michigan, 1929, p. 17 and rev. edn., 1937, p. 15 (the chest).

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