A wonderful Queen Anne elm and oak lowboy with all of the finer detailing seen on fashionable London pieces of the period but constructed and turned in local timbers - a vernacular piece made by a very skilled and experienced cabinet maker..English furniture was, until the late 1600s, almost entirely made from oak which was pegged and jointed without glue or screws..Furniture was mostly functional, robust and versatile but rarely elegant or experimental in form. When William and Mary took the throne of England in 1690, they brought with them the European understanding and love of inlays and decorative veneers and, as with any Royal tastes, this immediately became highly fashionable and desirable. English cabinet makers adapted very quickly to their customers revised demands for furniture that was elaborate and fine, lighter in weight and appearance..With Queen Anne’s brief accession to the throne there was a ten year renaissance of British cabinet making with a ...