A highly impressive and finely carved boarded oak chest, West Country, circa 1630
REF: 3386
The hinged lid with chip-carved ends, the front profusely and symmetrically carved with floral-filled cornucopia, and centred by a large daisy flowerhead below the iron lockplate.
See Victor Chinnery, 'Oak Furniture: The British Tradition' (2016), p. 81, fig. 2:110, for a comparable coffer in the Robert Kime Collection
- Height 62 cm / 24 "
- Width 106 cm / 41 3⁄4"
- Depth 39 cm / 15 1⁄2"
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