Boy Playing a Fife, 1638 (carved wood)

The elaborately carved staircase at Cromwell House in Highgate, North London, was created during a re-modelling of the house in 1638 and featured a different carved figure from Cromwell's brigade on each newel; Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) gave the house to his daughter, Bridget, and her husband Henry Ireton (1611-1651); Numbering 9 in all it is thought that two more figures, representing Cromwell and Ireton themselves, were destroyed at the Restoration; The figures were stolen in the 1980s and have not been seen since; Cromwell House is now the Ghanain High Commission;