Live Auction 14407Interiors
A CHARLES I OAK ARCHITECTURAL CABINET-ON-STAND
Lot 45

A CHARLES I OAK ARCHITECTURAL CABINET-ON-STAND

EARLY 17TH CENTURY, LAUDIAN STYLE

Closed24 May 2017

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GBP 37,500

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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

Purchased from Ronald Lee, London in the 1980's

Specialist note

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.