Fine table box in native Welsh oak, the front deeply carved with a rose and flowing tulip design profusely embellished with punchwork, within a moulded frame, and with the central initials ''HC'', over a drawer with similar design and decoration and with a moulded edge.
Wonderful colour and surface patination
(Replaced metalwork. Some old woodworm in the elm secondary timbers)
Glamorgan, south Wales, circa 1640.
Table boxes from the seventeenth century are fairly common but examples with a drawer are extremely rare. The form is a precursor of the famous Welsh coffor bach (miniature coffer), which was associated with marriages.
Height: 14.5 ins; 37 cms
Width: 28.75 ins; 73 cms
Depth: 18.5 ins;47 cms
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Antique Number: SA804971
Dateline of this antique is 17th Century
Height is 37cm (14.6inches)
Width is 73cm (28.7inches)
Depth is 47cm (18.5inches)
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