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A rare and unusual Joined Oak Press or Court Cupboard of small size. With an angled cupboard to the upper part between two turned bulbous columns. Decorated with applied split turnings and cabochon beneath a geometric frieze. The base with drawers similarly decorated above geometrically moulded doors.

Interestingly, although this Cupboard comes from Farnley Hall in Yorkshire, a house of celebrated antiquity and often painted by Turner, the applied mouldings and split turnings are more reminiscent of Seventeenth Century furniture from East Anglia than that from the West Riding of Yorkshire, though it could possibly be London made. In fact this piece bares marked similarity to a well catalogued group of early American furniture from Massachusetts and Connecticut illustrated in by Victor Chinnery in 'Oak Furniture, The British Tradition' p. 508 – 15, although the construction and timber of this piece is undoubtedly English. Circa 1660.

Condition; Minor repairs. Replaced block feet. Original lock to the upper cupboard.

Provenance Private Collection, Yorkshire.

Charles Lumb and Sons, Harrogate.

Farnley Hall, Yorkshire