AN OAK DRESSER

SWANSEA VALLEY, SOUTH WALES, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

AN OAK DRESSER
Swansea Valley, South Wales, early 18th Century
With moulded top and plate rail, above three frieze drawers, each inlaid with holly trailing flowerheads, above arched aprons and with baluster-turned legs joined by a potboard with moulded rim, on block feet, the back legs re-toed, the handles original, the right-hand side moulding of the potboard replaced
57½ in. (144 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Provenance

Captain Drummond, Edwin'sford, Lampeter, R.G Daniel's and W. King Thomas Auctioneer's, House Sale, late 1970s
Acquired from Avon Antiques, Bradford on Avon, December 1990.

Exhibited

London, Olympia, 1991, on the Regional Furniture Society stand.

Sale room notice

The provenance in the catalogue is incorrect. It should read:
Fosse Way Antiques, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
1965 - circa 1983 Clive Sherwood Esq
Acquired from Avon Antiques December 1990

Lot Essay

This dresser belongs to a very distinctive group associated with South Wales, all featuring a trailing floral inlay of high quality. Within the group there are three different types of terminal to the flowing branches: this lot features the tulip bulb.
The National Folk Museum at St. Fagans has an almost identical dresser in its collection, while P. Havard in 'The Welston Coffer', Regional Furniture Society Journal, Maney, 1992 and L. Twiston -Davies and H J Lloyd-Johnes in Welsh Furniture, Wales, 1950, figure 120, illustrate examples of the other two types of floral inlay.
Unusually the original handles have been fitted upside-down to conform with the floral inlay.

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