French Cupboards
A walnut cross-banded glazed-door antique French cupboard of c.1725, with broken pediment. It has been suggested that such cupboards became popular at the time to store and display the expensive tea sets then in vogue.
The figure of the walnut veneers is elegantly matched and the moulding on the cornice is gross-grained.
Quality of decoration and [...]

Corner cupboard
Corner cupboards would appear to be of Dutch origin, made by cabinet-makers who, until the eighteenth century, were far more skilled than their English counterparts. The earliest corner cupboards made in England would seem to be early eighteenth century, when the difficulty of making bow-fronts was made simpler with the use of pine for [...]