S and S Timms Antiques Ltd has dated this Victorian Miniature Bowfront Chest to the Victorian era.
It’s quite difficult to distinguish whether this particular miniature chest would have been made as an apprentice piece, or indeed as a sample piece, however either way it is most attractive and an extremely sweet size. It also retains its original splayed feet with a lovely elegant shaped apron.
There is much debate over whether miniature furniture was made as an apprentice piece, which is when a craftsmen who was looking for a job at a workshop would create something to showcase their talents. Or whether it was made as a travelling salesmans sample piece, which is when a selection of items were produced as scale models by a well established workshop, as a form of physical catalogue, in advance of a travelling salesman’s road trip around the country, for him to use as demonstrators when trying to fill his order book.
There is various historic old repairs and historic chips, cracks, scratches etc which all blend in with the overall feel of the piece now.
Circa 1860.
Height 11.75in.
Width 13in.
Depth 7.25in.
S and S Timms Antiques Ltd has dated this Victorian Miniature Bowfront Chest to the Victorian era.
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19th Century Victorian Miniature Bowfront Chest
