Havard and Havard has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
The lower part contains a brushing slide above five drawers applied with old but later handles, on a shaped plinth. Made from dense, irregularly figured native oak, including the backboards and internal shelf, the drawer linings of ash, oak and pine. Teifi Valley, circa 1790-1810.
Literature:
See Welsh Furniture 1250-1950, by Richard Bebb, Volume two, page 81, fig. 790, which shows a clothes press from the Teifi Valley of similar scale and drawer arrangement, though lacking the brushing slide, decorative inlay and shaped door panels.
Havard and Havard has dated this piece to the 18th Century.
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