A charming joined oak coffer, Circa 1680-1720, most likely made in Northern England. The front is carved with a lively frieze of lozenges and flower-head roundels set against a lattice ground, above three panels each centred on a carved lozenge enclosing a rosette. A band of carved lunettes runs along the lower rail, completing a well-balanced and generously decorated front.

The coffer is peg-jointed throughout, with plain panelled ends and back, and stands on stile feet formed from the extended uprights. The two-plank oak top overhangs and turns on wooden pivot hinges rather than metal ones, a traditional and characterful detail of early provincial joinery.

The colour and patina are wonderful: a deep, warm, glowing brown with a soft sheen built up over three centuries of use and waxing, and the top shows lovely variation in tone and figure. In good period condition, with a couple of sound old repairs that are in keeping with its age and age-related wear and natural marks to the top. A versatile antique oak chest, equally suited to storing linen or blankets at the foot of a bed, in a hallway or as a useful seat.

Height: 745

Width: 1250

Depth: 520mm

A handsome French Provincial farmhouse table, built to seat six to eight comfortably. The base is fruitwood, most likely cherry, with a deep, mellow colour and the clean, tapering square legs typical of provincial French cabinetmaking. The joints are pinned, and it has a single frieze drawer with a brass pull to one end.

The four plank oak top has a rich, well developed patina, with lively figuring, natural knots and the soft wear of generations of daily use. The base dates from the early to mid 19th century, and the oak top, a later 19th century replacement, has aged to sit comfortably with it. The table is in good, solid condition, stable and ready to use as a kitchen or dining table.

Height: 760mm

Length: 1830mm

Depth: 900mm

A nice quality English Windsor armchair, Circa 1850, of low hoop-back form with a solid elm seat. The pierced splat is carved in a stylised fleur-de-lys motif, flanked by close-set spindles rising to a bent hoop crest rail. The turned baluster arm supports and legs display crisp ring-turning, and the front legs are joined by a shaped crinoline stretcher.

The elm seat has developed a rich, deep patina with attractive figuring to the grain, and the chair overall shows honest wear consistent with genuine age and generations of use. A sturdy, comfortable and very usable example of the traditional English Windsor armchair.

Height: 960mm

Seat Height: 465mm

Width (between arm rests): 470mm

This George III mahogany chest of drawers, Circa 1780–1800, is a handsome, well-proportioned Georgian piece with excellent colour and a deep, mellow patina. The moulded top sits above three short drawers over three graduated long drawers, each cockbeaded and cut from richly figured mahogany, with brass keyhole escutcheons. The chest stands on ogee bracket feet.

The pierced brass batwing handles are replacements, but they are appropriate to the period and suit the chest beautifully.

The chest is in good condition, with the surface character expected of two centuries of use, including some age-related marks to the top. There is a minor loss to one of the bracket feet. A very practical and elegant Georgian chest of drawers, equally at home in a bedroom, hall or sitting room.

Height: 970mm

Width: 1100mm

Depth: 540mm