CREDENZAS
Victorian ebonised credenza, about 1870.
Aintheir name means sideboard in Italian, in Britain, credenzas were drawing-room rather than dining-room pieces, distinguished from chiffoniers and simpler side cabinets by their extensive decoration and their shaped (usually curving) outline. The best show strong French or Italian influence.
Generally a central, straight-fronted section with one or two panelled doors, flanked [...]

CHIFFONIERS
A mahogany chiffonier with scrolled shelf supports. Several similar types appear in designs of this period. 1820-1830
A rosewood chiffonier with glazed door panels in gilt Gothic design frames. The shelf above is supported on ormolu pillars and has a gallery rail. There is a mirror at the back.
An elegant chiffonier with shelves above, brass latticed [...]

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  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 [...]