AN OAK DRESSER

NORTH WALES, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details

AN OAK DRESSER
North Wales, late 18th Century
The three-shelf plate-rack with moulded cornice and shaped frieze, serpentine sides and six small drawers, the breakfront base with two short and three long drawers between fluted quarter columns and with arched fielded panel doors flanked by fluted pilasters, the sides panelled, the side-sections to the cornice replaced, the metalwork replaced
73 in. (186 cm.) wide, 84 in. (214 cm.) high, 21 in. (53 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired privately in the 1980s

Sale room notice

Three handles have been replaced.

Lot Essay

Dressers that have a breakfront lower section are traditionally associated with the Island of Anglesey, off North Wales. The centre section is usually flanked by quarter columns or turnings and this device maybe repeated at the outer corners; in this example though there are fluted uprights. Similar examples are illustrated in T. Alun Davies The Welsh Dresser And Associated Cupboards, Wales, 1991, and in John Andrews, 'A Breakfront Anglesey Dresser', Antique Collecting, December 1996.

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