Lot Essay
This chest, with its very heavy construction, predates the more common so-called Jacobean chest with geometrically moulded drawer fronts and is a very early example of the chest with drawers
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An oak chest, English, mid 17th century
with moulded top and rusticated frieze, above two short and two long drawers, each with later painted moulded panels flanking a central ogee projecting corbel, the upper one concealing a secret drawer, all flanked by split mouldings, on stile feet, replacements -- 36in. (91cm.) wide
See Illustration
with moulded top and rusticated frieze, above two short and two long drawers, each with later painted moulded panels flanking a central ogee projecting corbel, the upper one concealing a secret drawer, all flanked by split mouldings, on stile feet, replacements -- 36in. (91cm.) wide
See Illustration