Posts Tagged ‘Pine Dressers’

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 [...]

Antique English Oak and Walnut Dressers

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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 [...]

Pine Dressers

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

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 [...]