An Elizabeth I carved oak panel, circa 1580, allegorical of Time


From a headboard or overmantel, and with a female figure with ruffled skirts and plaited hair, holding a globe in her left hand and an hourglass in her right, all beneath an arcade carved with delicate addorsed flowerheads and between guilloche-carved pilasters, 47.5cm wide x 9cm deep x 67cm high, (18 1/2in wide x 3 1/2in deep x 26in high)