A pair of oak stiles, possibly early 17th century

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A pair of oak stiles, possibly early 17th century
each modelled with the head and semi-naked upper torso of a man and woman, supporting baskets of fruit on their heads, the tapering lower sections carved with guilloche ornament -- 22½in. (57cm) high (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Herbert Cescinsky and Ernest R. Gribble, Early English Furniture and Woodwork Vol.1, Waverly 1922. Comparisons can be made between the stiles incorporated in an oak mantel at Rotherwas, Co. Hereford, in the James I room, fig.348, p.307.

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