Welsh oak dresser of particularly small size in two sections, having a deep rack with overhanging cornice above two shelves incorporating small side spice cupboards, and flanked by shaped sides, over a base section with three drawers with moulded panel fronts, above a pair of doors with elaborately-shaped raised and fielded panels enclosing cupboards, and raised on stile feet.
The oak is of the dense native variety associated with Snowdonia, north Wales, and is used throughout this piece.
Wonderful colour and surface patination.
Circa 1730
Height: 178 cms; Max width (across the cornice): 130 cms.; Depth(across top of base): 55 cms.
For comparable examples see ''Welsh Furniture 1250-1950: A Cultural History of Craftsmanship and Design'' (Saer 2008), plates 586, 590.
This has to be one of the best dressers to have ever come out of Wales. It comes with a receipt from HW Keil of Broadway (one of the leading oak dealers of the twentieth century) dated 1955, where it is described as ''A rare 18th century small oak enclosed Dresser..'' and priced at £187.00.
It was sold to Mrs Edwin Fardon and descended to her son, John, who was one of the principal collectors of oak furniture of recent decades. It is illustrated in Victor Chinnery''s classic ''Oak Furniture: The British Tradition'', plate 3.335
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Antique Number: SA568494
Dateline of this antique is Georgian
Height is 178cm (70.1inches)
Width is 130cm (51.2inches)
Depth is 55cm (21.7inches)
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