Court cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1680
Materials
Carved, turned and joined oak
Measurements
170 x 147 cm
Place of origin
Westmorland (England)
Order this imageCollection
Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998259
Summary
An oak court cupboard, Westmorland, circa 1680, the nulled top rail issuing a pair of ball pendants, before a pair of recessed cupboard doors carved with unusual alternating reeds and flutes, either side of a fixed panel line-carved with a fleur-de-lys, between floral guilloche-carved uprights. The lower section of three paneled doors carved with interlaced scrolls and flowerheads, the fixed panels carved with lozenges, raised on later bun feet.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.