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A Rare Charles I Small Boarded Oak And Elm Bible Box, Welsh Borders, circa
  • A Rare Charles I Small Boarded Oak And Elm Bible Box, Welsh Borders, circa
  • A Rare Charles I Small Boarded Oak And Elm Bible Box, Welsh Borders, circa
  • A Rare Charles I Small Boarded Oak And Elm Bible Box, Welsh Borders, circa

  • A Rare Charles I Small Boarded Oak And Elm Bible Box, Welsh Borders SOLD

  • 17th century welsh oak bible box
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A rare Charles I small boarded oak and elm bible box, Welsh Borders.
 
Possibly Monmouthshire Circa 1620.
 
The carcass of oak boarded form, the front board decorated with multiple concentric roundels or 'draughts' all with scribe lines still visible, plain sides on an elm base all constructed from  riven boards, secured with nails..
Original ironwork with a superb colour and patina.
 
23"(59cms) Wide
9"  (22cms) High
11"(28cms) Deep
 
For a similar example of the Welsh roundel see Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (2016), p. 284, fig. 3:292.for a cupboard with the exact detail which i had the pleasure of owning recently.
 
Provenance : purchased from Beedham Antiques 1999
 
 

 

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