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Description: | The door panel of this encoignure is set with two panels of floral marquetry, framed in purplewood with boxwood stringing. The cupboard is made of oak veneered in tulipwood, the veneer applied on the diagonal.
Corner cupboards probably began as room fixtures, either left open or enclosed with a door. They appear as free standing cupboard from the late 17th century.
Size: Height: 90 cm; Width 70 cm (across front).
Corner cupboard probably began as fixtures, shelves across the corner of a room, either left-open or enclosed with a door. In the late 17th or early 18th century they appeared as free standing cupboards, sometimes with open shelves. | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 707 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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