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Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800
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for sale €2,896     $3,143
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Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

18th century
Description

Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base

A beautifully proportioned late Georgian oak pot board dresser base dating from the late 18th century, crafted in richly figured solid oak and retaining wonderful colour and patina throughout.

The dresser features three working drawers across the top frieze, each fitted with attractive brass swan-neck handles and escutcheons. Beneath are two smaller candle or spice drawers positioned to either side, with the central drawer front cleverly designed as a traditional dummy drawer. Decorative shaped arches beneath the drawer arrangement provide elegance and balance, while the turned front supports add further period charm.

The generous pot board shelf offers practical storage and display space, making this piece ideal for use as a kitchen dresser base, sideboard, console table, hallway piece or country house server.

Displaying excellent grain, rich warm tones and beautiful Georgian craftsmanship, this authentic antique dresser base combines functionality with timeless English country house character.

A highly desirable piece of Georgian furniture that will complement both period and contemporary interiors.

Dimensions

• Width: 136 cm (53½")

• Depth: 39 cm (15½")

• Height: 81 cm (31¾")

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Key Features

Genuine Georgian oak dresser base

Circa 1800

Original pot board shelf

Three upper drawers

Two candle/spice drawers

Central dummy drawer

Attractive brass swan-neck handles

Elegant shaped apron

Turned front supports

Excellent colour and patina

Solid oak construction

Ideal kitchen dresser, sideboard or console

English antique furniture

Delivery

• UK mainland FREE Other destinations please contact us, and we will get a quote. We use a professional Removal company to transport our precious items and do not entrust them to usual parcel services. Therefore, delivery may be 7 -10 days, but it is worth the wait of course.

• On occasions customers have been disappointed to miss an item as they e-mailed their enquiry instead of phoning, I would recommend that if you wished to get the piece, please call rather than e-mail. We are very friendly and easy to deal with.

This Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base are a green product and has not affected the environment we live in.

Guarantee

This Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base carries the Hingstons Antiques product guarantee plate which gives you the peace of mind that any item with this plate, is of the quality and condition expected when purchasing from Hingstons Antiques Limited. All our goods are individually selected by Nick Hingston who uses his experience of over 50 years of trading to select the items with the best design and condition suitable to be placed into our quality stock.

• Hingstons Distance selling policy.

• Purchases from Hingstons Antiques Ltd give all buyers the right to cancel the purchase within 14 working days after receipt of the item, for a full refund less transport costs, on condition it is returned in the condition it was sent.

• Payment- We can accept payment by bank transfer, card transaction by phone, or cheque in store for UK customers, please contact us if you are an overseas customer.

Date of Manufacture

Hingstons of Wilton has dated this Georgian Oak Dresser Base to the Georgian era.

Physical Dimensions
Height
81cm (31.89")
Width
136cm (53.54")
Depth
39cm (15.35")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Reference
SA1244239
Dealers Notes

PRICE MATCHING

Antiques are unique and it is impossible to price match in the normal way. Please take into account the quality of product, and the care taken in our restoration, before making a decision if you are looking at price comparison.

When you choose to purchase an item from Hingstons, you will be purchasing a piece that will enhance your home.

We spend time choosing the best product, an antique that has to meet the criteria to be placed in Hingstons of Wilton stock.

Beware of cheaper imitations.

DISTANCE SELLING REGULATIONS

Purchases from Hingstons Antiques Ltd are covered under the Distance Selling Regulations, which give all buyers the right to cancel the purchase within 7 working days after receipt of the item, for a full refund less RETURN transport costs.

Description
Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base
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A beautifully proportioned late Georgian oak pot board dresser base dating from the late 18th century, crafted in richly figured solid oak and retaining wonderful colour and patina throughout.
Hingstons of Wilton
fig 1. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 1. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

The dresser features three working drawers across the top frieze, each fitted with attractive brass swan-neck handles and escutcheons. Beneath are two smaller candle or spice drawers positioned to either side, with the central drawer front cleverly designed as a traditional dummy drawer. Decorative shaped arches beneath the drawer arrangement provide elegance and balance, while the turned front supports add further period charm.

fig 2. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 2. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

The generous pot board shelf offers practical storage and display space, making this piece ideal for use as a kitchen dresser base, sideboard, console table, hallway piece or country house server.

Displaying excellent grain, rich warm tones and beautiful Georgian craftsmanship, this authentic antique dresser base combines functionality with timeless English country house character.

fig 3. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 3. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

A highly desirable piece of Georgian furniture that will complement both period and contemporary interiors.

Dimensions

• Width: 136 cm (53½")

• Depth: 39 cm (15½")

• Height: 81 cm (31¾")

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fig 4. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 4. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

Key Features

Genuine Georgian oak dresser base

Circa 1800

Original pot board shelf

Three upper drawers

Two candle/spice drawers

Central dummy drawer

Attractive brass swan-neck handles

Elegant shaped apron

Turned front supports

fig 5. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 5. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

Excellent colour and patina

Solid oak construction

Ideal kitchen dresser, sideboard or console

English antique furniture

Delivery

• UK mainland FREE Other destinations please contact us, and we will get a quote. We use a professional Removal company to transport our precious items and do not entrust them to usual parcel services. Therefore, delivery may be 7 -10 days, but it is worth the wait of course.

fig 6. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 6. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

• On occasions customers have been disappointed to miss an item as they e-mailed their enquiry instead of phoning, I would recommend that if you wished to get the piece, please call rather than e-mail. We are very friendly and easy to deal with.

fig 7. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 7. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

This Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base are a green product and has not affected the environment we live in.

Guarantee

This Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base carries the Hingstons Antiques product guarantee plate which gives you the peace of mind that any item with this plate, is of the quality and condition expected when purchasing from Hingstons Antiques Limited. All our goods are individually selected by Nick Hingston who uses his experience of over 50 years of trading to select the items with the best design and condition suitable to be placed into our quality stock.

fig 8. A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
fig 8. Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base C.1800

• Hingstons Distance selling policy.

• Purchases from Hingstons Antiques Ltd give all buyers the right to cancel the purchase within 14 working days after receipt of the item, for a full refund less transport costs, on condition it is returned in the condition it was sent.

• Payment- We can accept payment by bank transfer, card transaction by phone, or cheque in store for UK customers, please contact us if you are an overseas customer.

Date of Manufacture

Hingstons of Wilton has dated this Georgian Oak Dresser Base to the Georgian era.

Height
81cm (31.89")
Width
136cm (53.54")
Depth
39cm (15.35")
Reference Numbers
Sellingantiques Ref
SA1244239
Hingstons of Wilton
Sellingantiques verified Since Mar 2010
Dealer Profile

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A Georgian oak dresser base featuring multiple drawers with brass handles, turned front legs, and an open lower pot board shelf.
Fine Georgian Oak Pot Board Dresser Base c.1800
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  • ObjectDresser Bases
  • Period18th century
  • StyleGeorgian
  • MaterialOak, Brass
  • ColourWarm Brown
  • MotifsPot board shelf, Turned front legs, Shaped apron, Brass drop handles
  • SizeH 81 cm (32 in) x W 136 cm (54 in) x D 39 cm (15 in)

This Georgian oak pot board dresser base dates from c.1800 and is executed in rich warm brown timber with brass hardware. The upper section contains three working frieze drawers above smaller flanking drawers and a central dummy drawer, all fitted with brass drop handles and key escutcheons. Below the drawers sits a shaped apron with arched cutouts, supported by turned front legs and straight rear supports that frame an open lower pot board shelf. The construction measures 81 cm high, 136 cm wide, and 39 cm deep. Suitable for use in a dining room, kitchen, or hallway, the piece provides practical surface space and lower open storage for daily items. The solid oak surface displays visible grain patterns and traditional joinery consistent with late 18th-century English country house furniture. The item serves as a functional sideboard or console table, integrating into period or contemporary room settings while offering accessible display areas.

A pot board dresser base is an eighteenth or early nineteenth-century item of country furniture, characterized by a low sideboard configuration with upper drawers and an open lower tier originally designed to keep heavy iron pots and kitchenware off damp floors.

Georgian dresser bases were predominantly constructed using regional hard woods such as solid oak, walnut, or pine, with joinery secured by wooden pegs, hand-cut dovetail joints, and fitted with cast brass bail handles or round drop pulls.

Authentic Georgian pieces exhibit hand-planed timber surfaces, asymmetrical dovetails, pegged mortise and tenon joints, natural shrinkage along timber seams, and historic oxidation or wear around the brass keyholes and leg bases.

A Georgian dresser base serves well as an entryway console table or dining room server, providing practical storage while allowing the open lower shelf to be styled with contemporary ceramics, woven baskets, or stacked books.

Maintain the wood surface by applying high-grade beeswax twice a year with a soft cloth, keeping the furniture away from direct heat sources to prevent timber shrinkage, and dusting regularly along the grain.
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