Posts Tagged ‘cupboards’

AN OAK SETTLE - AN OAK GATELEG TABLE - JAMES II OAK DINING CHAIRS - CHARLES II OAK CUPBOARD - WILLIAM AND MARY OAK SIDE TABLE - WILLIAM III WALNUT SIDE TABLE

Friday, December 18th, 2009

AN OAK SETTLE - AN OAK GATELEG TABLE - JAMES II OAK DINING CHAIRS - CHARLES II OAK CUPBOARD - WILLIAM AND MARY OAK SIDE TABLE - WILLIAM III WALNUT SIDE TABLE
A CHARLES II OAK CHEST in two parts and with
four geometrically panelled drawers with ebonised
dividing and flanking mouldings, 3ft. high by 3ft. lin.
wide (92cm. [...]

Antique Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and 1920`s Dressers

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Antique Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and 1920`s Dressers
The term ‘dresser’ comes from the side table used for the `dressing’ of food in the medieval hall. The form which was used in kitchens of the 17th and 18th centuries was still unchanged in the early 19th. Indeed
kitchen furniture, as a general rule, has been the least [...]

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 [...]

Dressers with Shelves

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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 [...]

Antique Dressers with Space Below

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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 [...]