Lot 389
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AN OAK LIVERY CUPBOARD, LAKELAND, LATE 17TH CENTURY
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AN OAK LIVERY CUPBOARD, LAKELAND, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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AN OAK LIVERY CUPBOARD, LAKELAND, LATE 17TH CENTURY
with a renewed top, profusely carved friezes and uprights, enclosed by a pair of panelled doors carved with serpent like creatures in the form of stylised scrolls, above a long frieze drawer carved with strapwork, on ring-turned and block legs joined by an undertier -- 47in. (120cm.) wide, 47½in. (121cm.) high, 20in. (51cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The distinctive serpent like creature, with what appears to be a beak, appears on chairs illustrated in Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, p.487, particularly fig.4.170a where it is in combination with rosette filled guilloche, and the armchair on p.489, fig.1.73 where it is in combination with the meandering foliate motif seen in the uprights of this lot.

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