A Charles I joined and boarded oak mural food cupboard, West Country, probably Gloucestershire or Somereset, circa 1640
Having a one-piece top, the single-panel door incise-carved with a double-heart motif against a stippled ground, and with pierced holes conceived as part of the design, framed by run-moulded rails, a single interior shelf, 63cm wide x 32cm deep x 62cm high, (24 1/2in wide x 12 1/2in deep x 24in high)
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The presence of pierced holes to the door panel implies this wall cupboard was intended for food storage, with the holes providing the necessary ventilation to prevent the food spoiling. Gabriel Olive, who owned an antique shop in Somerset for forty years, considered this double-heart motif indicative of an attribution to Somerset. See Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 285, fig. 3:294, for a related cupboard, which is also carved with this regional motif. See also ibid., p. 402 and p. 415.