Elizabethan Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

An antique pair of Elizabethan style bookcase cabinets offer ebonized English oak construction in tall narrow form, each having a single door with leaded beveled glass opening to she...

An antique English Elizabethan style hunt cupboard offers oak construction with upper having shaped crest over open shelf and double glass door cab...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite Limed Oak six plank coffer trunk dating to circa 1550-1600 the Elizabethan to Jacobean era. A nicely made genuine 420-...

An English mid-20th century standing corner cabinet in oak, the upper section for display behind diamond pattern leaded glass, the lower cabinet with paneled oak doors. Carved detail...

A wonderful early 17th century English Elizabethan Livery cupboard with canted cabinet. Marquetry and Parquetry inlaid on the doors and side panels. Ca...

An antique English Elizabethan sideboard offers beveled marble top over case with frieze drawer having central pyramidal element surmounting cabine...

A magnificent Victorian carved oak Elizabethan Revival four door inverted breakfront bookcase dating to circa 1880. With slightly domed square finals to the pediment and a moulded domed cornice carved with dragons it has four rounded glazed doors with turned and carved flanking columns above an elaborately carved stepped out base with thumb moulded edge. Superbly carved projecting figures, possibly depicting King Arthur, Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot, flank fielded panelled doors with carved oval cartouche and central doors carved with fruiting ivy, a symbol of fidelity. With five original adjustable shelves to each part of the upper section (only four shown) and deep cupboards to the base each with a single shelf. Fitted with brass engraved handles, original locks and with working key. With ‘Wylie...

Gorgeous oak Elizabethan cupboard with beautiful decoration and a amazing patina due to its extreme high age Unique and beautiful item with a hidden drawer. England late 16th centu...

A fine English housekeepers cabinet or cupboard of oak made by Smart & Brown Ltd of Nottingham from timber reclaimed from Dorothy Vernons' house. In the Elizabethan style, the cabinet features a moulded top over medium and large doors with applied mouldings - linen folds, quatrefoils, and rosettes - opening to several cupboard space, over geometric bottom drawers, the doors and drawers with iron hardware. Impressed legend in the interior reads: Made of oak taken from Dorothy Vernons House - By Smart & Brown, Ltd. - Nottingham - 1928 - No. 104 This piece can break down into three parts for ease of transportation. Smart & Brown a company of cabinet makers in Nottingham, established by Joseph Austin Brown in circa 1870. Dorothy Vernon (1544 – 24 June 1584), the younger daughter of Sir George Vernon and Margaret nee Talbois (or Tailboys), was the heiress of Haddon Hall, an English country house in Derbyshire with its origins in the 12th century. She married John Manners in 1563. The couple's descendants, the Dukes of Rutland, continue to own Haddon Hall. A legend grew up in the 19th century that Vernon and Manners eloped, and a number of novels, dramatizations and other works of fiction have been based on the legend. The Nottingham home of Dorothy Vernon was built on the remains of a Carmelite Friary on land between St James’ Street known as Friar Yard and Friar Lane. The friary, originally home to the White Friars...

This is a solid oak blanket chest / coffer made in England, circa 1720. The top of the chest has 3 panels with reeding around each of the panels and a nicely molded edge. On the fron...

Pair of Dark brown oak heavily distressed chest of drawers with linenfold carved detail to the two top drawer fronts and stepped molding to...

This is a particularly fine example of these atmospheric, early safes with a rare inner lock plate. The naïve painting on this strongbox has survived in excellent condition, exuding charm and character. The mermaid inner lock plate is a rare design, possibly alluding to the source of the money, valuables or documents that were intended to be stored in the strongbox coming from the sea. Documents and private papers are recorded as being kept in strong boxes, which were also used to safeguard other items of personal value. These iron bound chests were made in Southern Germany, particularly Nuremberg...