Antique English Dressers - Charles II period small oak dresser - 17th Century oak dresser - fruitwood dresser of the early 18th century on cabriole legs - English country dresser - oak dresser with upper shelves and single cupboard door - Queen Anne mahogany cupboarded oak dresser with drawers
The demarcation between antique cupboards and [...]
English Dresser
In the late sixteenth century, while wealthy households separated their dining rooms from the large hall and displayed their fine plate and porcelain on impressive court cupboards in their parlours, yeomen farmers moved to brick-built farmhouses with fewer rooms and servants. In their parlours were ’side boordes’ - long shallow tables with a single [...]
DRESSERS drawers under, no superstructure
A dramatic piece with the moulded three-drawer form we saw in the previous section plus two extra cupboards below. The heavy top moulding, the geometric moulding on the cushion-shaped drawer fronts and the applied split baluster pieces on the cleverly arranged centre panel suggest an early date. c. 1680
A typical dresser [...]
DRESSERS early sideboard type
An oak dresser of the second half of the seventeenth century, showing very thick boldly turned front legs and square back legs. Each of the four drawers is divided into two panels and the side is panelled as well. The top edge is heavily moulded and another moulding has been fixed along [...]
DRESSERS with shelves, and tridarns
It may seem odd to start a section on dressers with shelves by discussing tridarns, but they are closely linked both in their Welsh origin and in the possibility that the court (short) cupboard had a third layer
superimposed on top purely for display and that this proved so popular that the [...]
DRESSERS space below
A magnificent and large example of an English oak dresser of four drawers, raised upon three frontal cabriole legs, united by finely pierced and shaped apron. The superstructure of shelves, containing two cupboards with fluted frontal stiles, containing doors with square fielded panels. The frontal edges to the shelves and the upright supporters [...]
DRESSERS Pine
The pine dresser seems to be almost exclusively a Welsh product. Up to about 1840 the shelves were open, after that some parts were glazed until 1870, when totally glazed racks appeared. Pine became scarcertowards the end of the century so that back-boards became narrow; by the 1890s plywood panels came into use and [...]