A Rare Henry VIII English Carved Oak Board Chest
A Rare Henry VIII English Carved Oak Board Chest
A Rare Henry VIII English Carved Oak Board Chest

A Rare Henry VIII English Carved Oak Board Chest
Henry Viii Board chest
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A Rare Henry VIII Period Carved Oak Board Chest.

The single plank lid wih twin moulded edge front to back over a single boarded front carved with twin lunettes each filled with gothic lancets with barber twist borders topped with a quatrefoil rose the corners with a leaf and bud.

The original lockplate with pinched corners above a quatrefoil again edged with barber pole and trefoil flowers.

The back again twin moulded edge top and bottom and with original untouched dry crusty surface.

Plain single plank sides

The base is very interesting in that it is tusk tennoned to the sides with a verticle peg ,so i presume this must have been a silver chest to warrant the extra strength given to its design.

I have never seen or heard of another carved board chest tennoned this way a plain example sold at the Clive sherwood sale .

Condition as expected this chest has splits all round and the sides have been braced internally ,it has one replaced period hinge and has lost around 4" in height.

38.5" Wide

15" Deep

18" High

The carved lancets, produced by bold, confident, shallow cuts of the V-gouge tool, are characteristic of secular chests of this period. Similar examples are illustrated in H. Cescinsky and E. Gribble, Early English Furniture and Woodwork (1922), Vol. II, figs. 30-32; fig. 31 is particularly notable for the similar linear in-fill decoration. The authors refer to a distinction between the flatter chip-carving of secular pieces and the more ornate, deeper, carving of clerical items of this period. They continue that 'the geometrical form of interlacing circular heads which produces the pointed or lancet arch at the intersections, was a favourite detail, possibly because it was easily remembered and as easily executed'. The three illustrated examples, from the collections of W. Smedley Aston and Leonard G Bolingbroke, are all dated to the end of the fifteenth century. The frieze design of each chest has been adapted in order to accommodate the lock plate, as with this example.

A Henry VIII carved oak board chest of similar size was sold by Sotheby's The Clive Sherwood Collection May 2002 ,Lot 302 (£12,000)

A Henry VIII carved boarded chest was also sold by Bonhams,The Beedham Collection,24th May 2012 Lot 40 (£8,125)

A Rare chest for the collector .

A Rare Henry VIII English Carved Oak Board Chest