THE DOLPHIN CABINET: AN ELIZABETHAN OAK COURT CUPBOARD
basically late 16th century, the rectangular top with a dentil moulding below and two drawers with lunette-carved fronts flanked by foliate corbels, the door with a recessed panel carved with a stylised flowerhead enclosed by a scalework border and the canted side panels carved with stylised serpents within conforming borders, the gadrooned supports with carved lower elements, the base with a long lunette-carved frieze drawer over an “egg and dart” moulded frieze,
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£5,000 - £10,000
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Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
the base with conforming “cup and cover” supports and a platform incorporating a fret-carved apron and square tapering block feet, 130cm high x 122cm wide x 44.5cm deep
Provenance: Recorded in a painting of the Great Hall at Sandford Orcas in 1880, at that time with a shaped panel top. Almost certainly a Victorian “improvement” since removed. According to family records an almost identical court cupboard appeared at auction in 1980 where it was described as having originated from the Salisbury area.
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