LATE 18TH CENTURY

细节

A CHESHIRE/LANCASHIRE OAK AND MAHOGANY BANDED DRESSER
Late 18th century
With an arrangement of nine drawers around a central pair of cupboard doors with applied arched panels, flanked by reeded quarter columns and line inlaid blocks, on bracket feet
38in. (97cm.) high, 65in. (166cm.) wide, 21½in. (54cm.) deep
See Illustration

注意事项

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拍品专文

Low dressers of this type were made in various forms in Lancashire and Cheshire during the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. They were often made with hinged tops and simulated drawers in the top half. This example has nine working drawers and a cupboard with two doors to the centre. It has the classic features of dressers from this region: these include the use of mahogany crossbanding and the reeded quarter columns on the corners.
An undated Chester cabinet maker's workbook of circa 1800 itemises such a Danzick (sic) dresser of this type and gives a price of £7.10.2d for its manufacture, an addition of £1.18.10d for profit, making a total sale price of 9 guineas.