Lot Essay
This type of low cupboard was used in the dining room as a 'ewery', to hold a basin and ewer of rosewater for the washing of hands before or after a meal.
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AN OAK LIVERY CUPBOARD, ENGLISH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
with a moulded twin plank top and simulated dentil frieze, above a central lozenge filled panel door, flanked by moulded panels and split baluster columns,the sides with lozenge filled panels between similar split mouldings, on baluster turned legs and block feet joined by an undertier
20¼in. (102cm.) wide, 36in. (92cm.) high, 18in. (46cm.) deep
with a moulded twin plank top and simulated dentil frieze, above a central lozenge filled panel door, flanked by moulded panels and split baluster columns,the sides with lozenge filled panels between similar split mouldings, on baluster turned legs and block feet joined by an undertier
20¼in. (102cm.) wide, 36in. (92cm.) high, 18in. (46cm.) deep
Provenance
An Important Private Collection of Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Furniture, sold Sotheby's,28 May 1982, Lot 18
Literature
Wolsey and Luff,Furniture in England, The Age of the Joiner,London, 1968,fig 34
R W Symonds,Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England, 1955, p24, fig37
R W Symonds,Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England, 1955, p24, fig37
Special notice
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