Details
An oak dresser, Conway Valley, North Wales, early 18th century
the boarded plate-rack with moulded cornice and shaped frieze, above two graduated shelves with shaped sides and with a pair of small cupboards below, each with raised ogee arched panels and joined by another shelf, with three frieze drawers and a pair of cupboard doors with raised ogee arched panels, flanking a similar central raised panel, on stile feet, repairs -- 61in. (155cm.) wide, 76in. (194cm.) high, 21½in. (55cm.) deep
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the boarded plate-rack with moulded cornice and shaped frieze, above two graduated shelves with shaped sides and with a pair of small cupboards below, each with raised ogee arched panels and joined by another shelf, with three frieze drawers and a pair of cupboard doors with raised ogee arched panels, flanking a similar central raised panel, on stile feet, repairs -- 61in. (155cm.) wide, 76in. (194cm.) high, 21½in. (55cm.) deep
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Provenance
Anonymous Sale, Hall Wateridge & Owen, Shrewsbury, 1986
Literature
T Alan Davies, The Welsh Dresser and Associated Cupboard, University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1991, pg. 28, fig. 18