17th century oak cupboard

Jan & John Maggs

Antiques and Art

A spectacular Jacobean oak cupboard with four doors and six drawers

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Purchased privately from an important Massachusetts estate, this cupboard offers a feast of decoration and a wealth of storage. Nearly rectangular, it was made in two sections of virtually equal size, which are joined by pegs, and articulated by a belt of applied split spindles. Each of the twelve rectangles that comprise the face is decorated with applied mouldings, arranged in patterns of varying complexity, from the simple articulated rectangles of the side-hung drawers to the increasingly virtuosic designs applied to the doors and the center panels.

Each of the cupboard sections is embellished with eight applied half spindles, one drawer section ha six, and the top drawer section has four corbels as decorative divisions. The two center panels, behind which is blind storage, have a smaller version of the moulding pattern of the drawers at top and bottom.

English, ca. 1680

Width: 47 ½”; Height: 48 ¼; Depth: 19”

SOLD

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Inventory #26610

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