Live Auction 6359Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A CHARLES I WALNUT PRESS CUPBOARD
Lot 148

A CHARLES I WALNUT PRESS CUPBOARD

EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Closed21 June 2011

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GBP 8,125

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A CHARLES I WALNUT PRESS CUPBOARD
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The upper section enclosed by a pair of doors flanking a central panel and applied with four figural caryatids and projecting columns, above a larger pair of doors, one door painted with inventory mark 'V 30', another door struck VCH CaT XXIII No.4
62 in. (158 cm.) high; 57½ in. (146 cm.) wide; 21 in. (54 cm.) deep

The Property of H.H. the Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha removed from Schloss Greinburg, Austria, sold Sotheby's Amsterdam, 7 and 8 September 2004, Lot 37

Specialist note

It is interesting to surmise how this English cupboard came to be in the Royal Collections of Austria. The Saxe-Coburg family rose to prominence in the early 19th century when the Duke Franz Friedrich Anton married his children into significant families. His youngest daughter Princess Victoire married Edward, the brother of King Geroge IV in 1818. Their daughter Victoria would become Queen of England in 1837 and would marry her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840.
It is very unusual to find such an English cupboard made from walnut rather than the typical oak.