An elegant early 18th Century provincial oak low dresser, English c.1730-60
An elegant early 18th Century provincial oak low dresser, English c.1730-60
A fine early 18th Century provincial oak low dresser of most elegant proportions, the flat top of broad oak planks with thumb mouldings above four short drawers with mid-18th Century brasswork, the whole raised on matched cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. This piece would have been considered a formal dresser, or side table, perhaps from the dining room of an early 18th Century manor or prosperous farmhouse.
Size: 30 inches (76cm) high; 78 inches (199cm) wide; 21 inches (53cm) deep
Stock Number: VT20367
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“The ‘formal dresser’ was typically used in a dining room to administer the final touches to and suitably display the meals initially prepared on its inferior counterpart in the kitchen… Towards the end of the 17th century, by which time the court cupboard had gone out of of fashion and the press cupboard was showing signs of doing likewise, a purpose-built formal dresser was being produced in parts of England... The concept of a formal dresser remained fashionable for the dining rooms of large houses in some regions throughout the 18th Century, only very gradually being supplanted by the finer sideboards of ‘Adam’ type which had become popular in London around 1770.”
David Knell English Country Furniture 1500-1900 Antique Collectors Club 1992
