Antique English Corner Cupboards - walnut cross banded glazed-door corner cupboard - walnut bow-fronted corner cupboard - oak corner cupboard of 18th Century with panelled doors - 18th century mahogany bow-fronted corner cupboard with fluted pilasters - 18th century mahogany corner cupboard - country corner cupboard -  corner cupboard with with three drawers
Although antique corner [...]

ANTIQUE COURT CUPBOARDS WITH ENCLOSED SHELVES
About 1610-1800
Aprestigious item in the 17thC, much less so in the 18thC, when it was only country-made. Used for displaying and storing food and plates, cups, in the hall (later in the parlour) where meals were taken. Originally made without locks, therefore not intended to contain valuable items. Earliest surviving [...]

ANTIQUE COURT CUPBOARDS WITH OPEN SHELVES (BUFFETS)
About 1570-1680
Apiece of furniture derived from medieval prototypes, comprising a set of three open shelves, which in grand houses was draped with fabric or carpet and used to display plate, but in lesser homes could be used as a side-table. The names buffet, court cupboard, sideboard and dresser were [...]

ENGLISH CORNER CUPBOARDS
About 1690-1800
Mahogany corner cabinet with swan- neck cresting, chamfered sides and typical brass H-hinges
Thought to have been introduced from Holland, coinciding with the fashion for painted pine-panelled rooms, corner cupboards were used to store and display fine china, silver or other valuables in the drawing-room, Some could be hanging, above dado level, others [...]

COURT CUPBOARDS WITH ENCLOSED SHELVES
About 1610-1800
Aprestigious item in the HOC, much less so in the 18thC, when it was only country-made. Used for displaying and storing food and plates, cups, in the hall (later in the parlour) where meals were taken. Originally made without locks, therefore not intended to contain valuable items. Earliest surviving examples [...]

COURT CUPBOARDS WITH OPEN SHELVES (BUFFETS)
About 1570-1680
Apiece of furniture derived from medieval prototypes, comprising a set of three open shelves, which in grand houses was draped with fabric or carpet and used to display plate, but in lesser homes could be used as a side-table. The names buffet, court cupboard, sideboard and dresser were seemingly [...]

WALL CUPBOARDS
The turner’s art has been slightly neglected in this book. Those extraordinary chairs made almost entirely of turned parts are rather specialised but one does, however, still see wall cupboards which have turning for their main decorative feature.
A fine quality example of a turned wall cupboard. Only the top, bottom, shelf and door supports [...]

COURT CUPBOARDS  closed base
Most furniture of any height has a moulding round the top. Many court cupboards do not, or just very shallow ones. This seems to have caused a degree of embarrassment to generations of connoisseurs and dealers with the result that many now appear to have ‘later top moulding’. One should not be [...]

COURT CUPBOARDS  open base
Well-turned and carved melons (cup and cover). Again, note that the pattern does not need to match, also the box or holly and ebony inlay on the base appears in a mild form on the top of the two drawers. These were used as Tudor status symbols which could be employed to [...]

COURT CUPBOARDS
Nomenclature in antiques is as much subject to confusion as it is to snobbery. The word ‘buffet’, which has connotations of sideboards loaded with cold sandwiches or of damp railway stations, is not used by the cognoscenti to describe those open-shelved, bulbously supported pieces shown in this section. They are called court cupboards. There [...]