chests

HENRY VIII,

LINENFOLD OAK CHEST,

ENGLISH,

CIRCA 1520 - 1540

Henry VIII joined oak linenfold chest with three carved linenfold panels to the front and two to each side, plank top & wide top and bottom rails. The bottom rail with chamfered edges set at intervals to form the framing of each linenfold panel.

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a similar form of linenfold panelling is illustrated in Victoria & Albert Museums, catalogue of English furniture & woodwork, vol. 1 - Gothic & early Tudor, plate 36.

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