Elizabethan Oak Boarded Chest
Elizabethan Oak Boarded Chest
United Kingdom c. 1550 to 1570
Rare and Unusual Mid Elizabethan Oak Low Boarded Chest
The six plank boarded Chest with lightly inscribed and moulded lid above a front panel with a combination of chip carved Gothic and Celtic interlace patterns flanking lunette and trefoil arcades beneath the lock plate. All with further lightly incised detail to the frame and twin fluting across the base The dovetail shaped end scroll buttresses with moulded and arcaded foot, with Gothic cross decoration to one end.
The six plank boarded Chest with lightly inscribed and moulded lid above a front panel with a combination of chip carved Gothic and Celtic interlace patterns flanking lunette and trefoil arcades beneath the lock plate. All with further lightly incised detail to the frame and twin fluting across the base The dovetail shaped end scroll buttresses with moulded and arcaded foot, with Gothic cross decoration to one end.
Medium Oak
Signed
1550 - 1570
