Archive for the ‘Dressers with Drawers Under’ Category

antique old oak chest, antique pool table, reproduction desk

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Such a technique has strict limitations if it is employed with solid timber. Not only is it impossible to get many pieces of great thickness with matching grain, but the english antique sideboard practical difficulties of setting them together, edge-to-edge, are very considerable. They need to be set up as a panel within a frame, [...]

Dressers with Drawers Under

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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 [...]