EARLY 17TH CENTURY, LAUDIAN STYLE

Details

A CHARLES I OAK ARCHITECTURAL CABINET-ON-STAND
EARLY 17TH CENTURY, LAUDIAN STYLE
The doors enclosing twenty-seven drawers and with distinctive cartouches flanked by Ionic pilasters
60 in. (153 cm.) high; 42 in. (107 cm.) wide; 21 in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

Purchased from Ronald Lee, London in the 1980's

Literature

Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, fig. 4.41 (full page) and 4.41a.

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Lot Essay

Chinnery states that this cabinet is the best example of 'Laudian' furniture now extant. It is almost identical to a cabinet in cedar at Arbury Hall, Warwickshire which was made for William Laud when Bishop of London. Whilst Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-40) Laud commissioned various items for Lambeth Palace and his college, St John's Oxford. The framed cartouche is the most distinctive element of the designs. Laud was executed in 1645.

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