CARVED OAK LIVERY CUPBOARD.
In the Hall of the Stationers' Company. Made in 1674, the curved pediment added later, probably in 1788.
There is above an illustration of one of the two livery cupboards, which formerly stood on the daïs, and these are good examples of the cupboards for display of plate of this period. The lower part was formerly the receptacle for unused viands, which were distributed to the poor after the feast. In their original state these livery cupboards finished with a straight cornice, the broken pediments with the eagle (the Company's crest) having most probably been added when the Hall was, to quote an inscription on a shield, "repaired and beautified in the mayoralty of the Right Honourable William Gill, in the year 1788," when Mr. Thomas Hooke was Master, and Mr. Field and Mr. Rivington (the present Clerk's grandfather) Wardens.
ARM CHAIRS.
Chair upholstered in Spitalfields silk. Carved and upholstered Chair. Chair upholstered in Spitalfields silk.
HAMPTON COURT PALACE. HARDWICK HALL. KNOLE, SEVENOAKS.
PERIOD: WILLIAM III. TO QUEEN ANNE.
There is still preserved in a lumber room one of the old benches of seventeenth century work—now replaced in the hall by modern folding chairs. This is of oak, with turned skittle-shaped legs slanting outwards, and connected and strengthened by plain stretchers. The old tables are still in their original places.