Antique Elizabethan Carved Oak Revival Livery Housekeepers Cupboard Cabinet 1860 Mid-Century Modern 137 cm X 106

137 cm X 106

The hinged lid decorated with a repousse work floral basket design

the use of intensive to lurid colours and the absence of realistic representation have become characteristic of his painting style

signed lower right

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Antique Elizabethan Carved Oak Revival Livery Housekeepers Cupboard Cabinet 1860 Mid-Century Modern 137 cm X 106An elegantly extravagant antique 16th Century Elizabethan Revival carved oak livery or housekeeper's cupboard, England, Circa 1860. The cupboard is in two sections the top section having hemispherical carvings representing a cut pineapple fruit, which was first brought back from the Americas in the late 1500's, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 1603). Below is a frieze of corresponding hemispherical carvings flanked by a pair of circular