Rare Elizabeth I oak, walnut & chestnut table cabinet, with a hinged top enclosing a well. Above a frieze of geometric mouldings, the lockable fall-front reveals a configuration of seven internal drawers with secret compartments to the back of the drawers.

Literature: For a comparable inlaid table cabinet, dated 1570, see the collection at Melford Hall, Suffolk (NT926575) and illustrated Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture (1986), Vol. I, p. 101, fig. 4.