Lot Essay
A press cupboard with similar applied roundels is illustrated in Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, p.324, fig.3.273.
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AN OAK CHEST, LAKE DISTRICT, LATE 17TH CENTURY
with a cleated twin plank top above a profusely carved front with rosette filled stylised frieze and four horizontal scroll carved panels with four larger panels below centred with rosette filled applied roundels, on channelled stile feet -- 51½in. (131cm.) wide, 29½in. (75cm.) high, 21½in. (55cm.) deep
with a cleated twin plank top above a profusely carved front with rosette filled stylised frieze and four horizontal scroll carved panels with four larger panels below centred with rosette filled applied roundels, on channelled stile feet -- 51½in. (131cm.) wide, 29½in. (75cm.) high, 21½in. (55cm.) deep