The upholstered chair belongs more properly to the Jacobean period, and in the next chapter will be shown several specimens of those used by James I.

In Elizabethan panelling to rooms, in chimneypieces, doorways, screens such as those built across the end of a hall and supporting the minstrels' gallery, the wood used was nearly always English oak, and most of the thinner parts, such as that designed for panels and smaller surfaces, was obtained by splitting the timber, thus exhibiting the beautiful figure of the wood so noticeable in old examples.

RECENT SALE PRICES.[1]

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Chest, oak, with inlaid panels under arches, with caryatid figures carvedin box-wood, English, temp. Elizabeth. Christie, January 29, 1904.4090
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Tudor mantelpiece, with elaborately carved jambs, panels, brackets, sides,and cornice, 6 ft. by 7 ft. 3 in. high. Herbert Wright, Ipswich, February19, 190415500
Old oak panelling, in all about 60 ft. run and 6 ft. 6 in. high, with 17 carvedpanels and 3 fluted pilasters fitted in same, part being surmounted by acornice. Herbert Wright, Ipswich, February 19, 1904
Credence, walnut-wood, with a cupboard and drawer above and shelf beneath,the corners are returned, the central panel has carved upon it, in lowrelief, circular medallions, pierced steel hinges and lock, 36 in. wide,50 in. high, early sixteenth century. Christie, May 6, 190434600
Bedstead, Elizabethan, with panelled and carved canopy top, supported byfluted and carved pillars, inlaid and panelled back, with raised figures andflowers in relief, also having a carved panelled footboard. C. W. Provis& Son, Manchester, May 9, 190422100
Bedstead, oak Elizabethan, with carvedback, dated 1560, and small cupboard fitted with secret sliding panel, andfurther having carved and inlaid panelled top with inlaid panels, thewhole surmounted with heavy cornice. C. W. Provis & Son, Manchester,May 9, 19043300
Sideboard, Elizabethan old oak, 6 ft. 2 in. wide by 7 ft. 6 in. high, with carvedcanopy top; also fitted with gallery shelf, supported by lions rampant.C. W. Provis & Son, Manchester. May 9, 19046000

By kindness of T. E. Price Stretche, Esq.
ELIZABETHAN OAK TABLE.

[1] By the kindness of the proprietors of the Connoisseur these items are given from their useful monthly publication, Auction Sale Prices.

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STUART OR
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SEVENTEENTH CENTURY