Chest
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1500
Materials
Oak, elm, paint, iron
Measurements
51 cm (H); 113 cm (W); 35.5 cm (D)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
NT 427638
Summary
A boarded oak and elm chest, English, possibly West Country, circa 1500 with alterations. The later elm plank top above a chip carved front decorated with gothic tracery and with brackets or spandrels to the feet, one missing. The front showing traces of the original red painted surface.
Provenance
On loan from Victoria & Albert Museum.
References
Chinnery 1979, Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (ACC revised 2016), figs.2:186-7