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Carved Bleached Oak Potboard Dresser
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Carved Bleached Oak Potboard Dresser

1900 - 1920
For Sale by LTANTIQUES.CO.UK
Description

A handsome bleached oak dresser base of generous proportions, featuring three finely carved drawers fitted with brass drop handles.

The decorative carved detail continues throughout the drawer fronts and supports.

Raised on carved turned legs united by a practical potboard base, this versatile dresser offers useful storage while serving as an attractive focal point.

Finished in a desirable bleached oak colour, making it ideal for both traditional and contemporary interiors.

Presented in very good condition throughout ready for use.

W 168cm (66.25")

D 52.5cm (20.75")

H 84cm (33.25")

Date of Manufacture

LTANTIQUES.CO.UK has dated this Bleached Oak Potboard Dresser to the 1920s.

Independent Date Check ID 09529864
Dealer's Item Date1920s
Sellingantiques Date1920s
Sellingantiques agingItem 90-120 years old
Test ResultsPassed dating check
Why Sellingantiques dated this piece to THE 1920s:
Machine-cut joints inside the drawer linings: construction after 1900.
Deeply carved strapwork and gadroons: 1920s Jacobean revival taste.
Cast brass drop handles on pressed rosettes: fittings of the interwar era.
Stripped oak with remnants of older stain: modern bleaching of earlier polish.

This is an independent date report produced by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. The process uses the photographs shown on this page. The system is never told the date the dealer has declared. This report shows that the two dates corroborate.

Physical Dimensions
Height
84cm (33.07")
Width
168cm (66.14")
Depth
52.5cm (20.67")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Reference
SA1218552
Dealers Internal Reference
HHN260605G
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Description
A handsome bleached oak dresser base of generous proportions, featuring three finely carved drawers fitted with brass drop handles.

The decorative carved detail continues throughout the drawer fronts and supports.

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Raised on carved turned legs united by a practical potboard base, this versatile dresser offers useful storage while serving as an attractive focal point.
LTANTIQUES.CO.UK
fig 1. A long carved bleached oak potboard dresser base featuring relief carved drawer fronts, turned support legs, brass drop handles, and an open lower display shelf.
fig 1. Carved Bleached Oak Potboard Dresser

Finished in a desirable bleached oak colour, making it ideal for both traditional and contemporary interiors.

Presented in very good condition throughout ready for use.

W 168cm (66.25")

D 52.5cm (20.75")

H 84cm (33.25")

Date of Manufacture

LTANTIQUES.CO.UK has dated this Bleached Oak Potboard Dresser to the 1920s.

Independent Date Report ID 09529864
Dealer's Item Date1920s
Sellingantiques dating1920s
Sellingantiques agingItem 90-120 years old
Test ResultsPassed dating check
Why Sellingantiques dated this piece to the 1920s:
Machine-cut joints inside the drawer linings: construction after 1900.
Deeply carved strapwork and gadroons: 1920s Jacobean revival taste.
Cast brass drop handles on pressed rosettes: fittings of the interwar era.
Stripped oak with remnants of older stain: modern bleaching of earlier polish.

This is an independent date report produced by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. The process uses the photographs shown on this page. The system is never told the date the dealer has declared. This report shows that the two dates corroborate.

Height
84cm (33.07")
Width
168cm (66.14")
Depth
52.5cm (20.67")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Ref
SA1218552
Dealers Internal Ref
HHN260605G
LTANTIQUES.CO.UK
LTANTIQUES.CO.UK
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Specialists in all periods of english furniture

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Archive I A long carved bleached oak potboard dresser base featuring relief carved drawer fronts, turned support legs, brass drop handles, and an open lower display shelf.

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LTANTIQUES.CO.UK
Telephone 01634 233280 or 07799 880 163
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White Hill Road
Detling
Nr Maidstone
Kent
ME14 3HH
United Kingdom
Dealer Profile Page sellingantiques.co.uk/lta
Verified Since Jan 2011
Items For Sale 277
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A long carved bleached oak potboard dresser base featuring relief carved drawer fronts, turned support legs, brass drop handles, and an open lower display shelf.
Carved Bleached Oak Potboard Dresser
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A long carved bleached oak potboard dresser base featuring relief carved drawer fronts, turned support legs, brass drop handles, and an open lower display shelf.
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Written by Sellingantiques from the dealer’s photographs and listing
  • ObjectDressers
  • Period1900 - 1920
  • StyleEnglish Country
  • MaterialOak, Brass
  • ColourLight Oak
  • MotifsCarved panel fronts, Turned legs, Potboard shelf, Brass drop handles
  • SizeH 84 cm (33 in) x W 168 cm (66 in) x D 52.5 cm (21 in)

This English Country dresser base is made from bleached oak with a light timber colour, brass drop handles, and decorative carved panel fronts. Dating from 1920, the piece displays relief-carved drawer fronts, detailed carved turned support legs, and an open lower potboard display shelf. The rectangular top sits above six small drawers each fitted with a drop handle, mounted over three front support legs resting on the floor shelf base. The dresser measures 84 cm high, 168 cm wide, and 52.5 cm deep. In a home today, this versatile storage furniture functions effectively as a sideboard or console table in a kitchen, dining room, hallway, or living space. The neutral wood tone accommodates traditional and contemporary interiors alike, providing surface space for display alongside drawer storage and the open lower shelf for practical household items.

FAQs

A potboard dresser is a regional variant of the traditional sideboard or dresser base, characterized by an open lower shelf near floor level known as a potboard, originally designed to display and store heavy culinary vessels.

Traditional dressers were constructed predominantly from native hardwoods like oak, utilizing hand-cut dovetail joints, pegged mortise and tenon joinery, hand-carved relief panels, and solid timber backboards.

Authenticity can be evaluated by inspecting hand-carved detailing, irregular tool marks on unexposed timber, original iron or brass hardware, authentic drawer construction, and natural timber shrinkage across wide panel surfaces.

The neutral tone of bleached oak seamlessly bridges traditional architecture and modern spaces; it can be styled with contemporary ceramics, minimal table lamps, or framed artwork to create texture against painted wall panelling.

Bleached oak should be dusted regularly with a soft dry cloth and protected from direct sunlight or harsh heat sources; applying a high-quality matte clear beeswax preserves the timber surface without altering its pale finish.
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