The bread and cheese cupboard which generated immense interest
UK: IN THE primitive pantheon of vernacular furniture, the bread and cheese cupboard is an unusually specialised form, hence the immense interest from country furniture buffs in the oak example here which was consigned to the Colwyn Bay rooms of Rogers Jones and Co. for sale on February 29.
The earliest surviving case furniture for food storage dates from the late 15th century – a period w…