A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibite
A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibite
A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibite
A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibite
A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibite
A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibite

A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibited At BADA Fair 1978
17th century carved oak bible box.
£950.00

A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box.

Circa 1640.

This lovely little oak box is carved with guilloche banding and a sycamore lid and is painted with green 19th century paint with a duck egg blue undercoat showing through.

Original lockplate and hasp with period replaced hinges (done a long time ago.)

This box is illustrated in the July 1978 edition of Antique collecting club magazine, a four page spread on bible boxes for an exhibition called The Country Look mounted by members of BADA with 60 members holding ehibitions.

The article written by James Storm and has 15 boxes illustrated.

This bible box was part of Tom Crispins exhibition at his shop Crispin in St Albans,Tom is also the author of the book The English Windsor Chair.

A nice box with a pop of colour and a fun back story.

Dimensions:

19.5" (50cm) Wide.

7.5" (18cm) High.

12.5" (32cm) Deep.

A 17th Century Carved Oak Bible Box With 19th Century Paint Finish Exhibited At BADA Fair 1978