A green-painted pine dresser, probably West Country, late 19th century

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A green-painted pine dresser, probably West Country, late 19th century
with a moulded cornice and partly boarded back with two open shelves, above three frieze drawers and boarded continuous sides, with a shelf below -- 80in. (204cm.) wide, 73in. (186cm.) high, 17½in. (45cm.) deep
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Although this dresser can be provenanced to the Isle of Man, no dressers from the island have been recorded with integral size (see B. Cotton Manx Traditional Furniture, Isle of Man, 1993). We may therefore look to the West Country as a possible origin where for example the dresser in the kitchen of Avebury Manor, Wiltshire has the same feature of integral size.

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