Park Lodge Antiques has dated this Burr Walnut Marquetry Chest to the 17th Century.
A William and Mary walnut floral marquetry chest, circa 1690.
The two short over three long oak-lined graduating drawers are similarly inlaid with reserves of marquetry and each drawer is banded in a wide leafy cut marquetry border.
The burr walnut sides are banded in a marquetry border with large reserves of marquetry to the centre depicting tulips and spring flowers rising from a plume acanthus
A similarly designed marquetry table top is illustrated in A.Bowetts, ‘English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne’, p.61, plate 2:43, showing the variety created by transposing elements of the design so that no two quadrants of marquetry are identical.
A similar chest from Clevedon Court, Somerset is illustrated in R. Edwards, ‘ The Dictionary Of English Furniture’, Vol II’, p.34
Park Lodge Antiques has dated this Burr Walnut Marquetry Chest to the 17th Century.
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Fine 17th Century William and Mary Burr Walnut Marquetry Chest of Drawers