A large Charles I boarded oak box, circa 1640


The one-piece top with a run of dog-tooth and roundel-punched decoration to the front and sides, and with moulded edge, above a front board with chip-carved ends and deeply and profusely carved with pairs of leafy 'S'-scrolls forming addorsed hearts, the end boards carved with a fruit or budding plant within a frame of leafy 'S'-scrolls, flower-filled quadrant lunettes to each bottom corner, the projecting base-board with rounded edge, 72.5cm wide x 43cm deep x 28cm high, (28 1/2in wide x 16 1/2in deep x 11in high)