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English Oak Box Settle
An English Oak box settle, typically used in a tavern, having a boarded back beneath a chip-carved top rail. The shaped slab ends conceal a useful storage box with a lift-up lid and traditional rose-head nail decoration.
Ref : RL.66
Height :91cm / 36 inches
Width : 61cm / 24 inches
Depth : 41cm / 16 inches
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English Oak Box Settle
An English Oak tavern seat with three fielded panels. The shaped slab ends conceal a useful storage box with a lift-up lid secured by iron hinges. These tavern seats often came with multiple panels and were common throughout the 17th & 18th century, some having very high backs to give protection from draughts.
Ref : TG.266
Height :91cm / 36 inches
Width : 91cm / 36 inches
Depth : 41cm / 16 inches
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English Oak Coffer with Grapevine Carving
An important English Oak coffer from the Elizabethan period with a thumb-moulded top. The panelled front features extravagant floral carving, bold trusses and stop-fluted stiles. The three arcaded panels have strapwork decoration and fine guilloche carving. Coffers or "chests" were originally used for storing weaponry, but were later utilised for the storage of bedroom linen and textiles.
Ref : RL.193/GV
Height :61cm / 24 inches
Width : 116cm / 46 inches
Depth : 50cm / 19.5 inches
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English Oak Dower Chest with Fall-Front
A classic Welsh marriage coffer known as a "dower" chest and made from the finest English Oak. It features attractive ogee-shaped fielded panels above a pair of drawers. Traditionally, it was the duty of the bride's family to provide a chest, to be used for storing the bride's "dowery" linen.
Ref : RL.21209/HFE
Height :71cm / 28 inches
Width : 122cm / 48 inches
Depth : 46cm / 18 inches
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English Oak Jacobean Style Coffer
An imposing English Oak coffer from the Jacobean period, with a thumb-moulded top. The panelled front features fluted carving, stop-fluted stiles and three arcaded panels. Coffers or "chests" were originally used for storing weaponry, but were later utilised for the storage of bedroom linen and textiles.
Ref : RL.21
Height :61cm / 24 inches
Width : 116cm / 46 inches
Depth : 50cm / 19.5 inches
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English Oak Mule Chest
An English Oak "mule" chest of Yorkshire origins, with features influenced by Thomas Chippendale (who lived in Otley). The term "mule" chest is used to describe a chest which is neither one thing or another ie. a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. Therefore, a "mule" chest is a cross between a coffer and a chest of drawers. This design features fine fluted quarter-turned columns and ogee-shaped bracket feet, together with arched, fielded panelled doors and seven practical drawers.
Ref : RL.23804
Height :81cm / 32 inches
Width : 140cm / 55 inches
Depth : 53cm / 21 inches
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