Rare late 17th Century English oak low dresser of diminutive proportions.
The well patinated two plank top with moulded edge, above a pair of twin mitre moulded drawers, with brass drop handles. Raised on baluster turned front legs, with rectangular section side stretchers. Great overall colour and patination.
Notice the beautful figured elm single plank back board! Unusual.
With three raised fielded drawers above a pair of central fixed fielded panels
Flanked to either side by a conforming cupboard door, on extended stile supports.
1780 – 1800
H:82 cm W:186.5 cm D.48cm
An exceptional 19th Century Australian eucalyptus stool. The thick plank top having good faded colour and patination (note the fiddle back grain to the sides). Supported by four original turned outswept ash legs.
In our storeroom we have a vast selection of 18th and 19th Century English and French dresser and buffet racks.
Suitable to replace a missing rack or very fashionalbe to hand approximately 8 inches above a sideboard, this modernises your dresser or just as a hanging wall rack on its own.
If you look through these photos and imagine the lower sections being removed to have more of a recatngular clean line look. In the case of a timber panelled back the panels can be removed to modernised the rack.
Sizes vary from 4ft – 7ft wide and can look fantastic with a mix of modern and old on the shelves. One of my favorite mixes is green majolica plates and also with pewter charges and tankets.
A well made set of English country Hepplewhite style fruitwood dining chairs including 2 carvers. The quarter moulded top rail above a fret carved vase shaped centre splat. Resting on a classic shoe. The adjacent matching uprights having shaped arms on inward curved supports. With a timber seat resting on square quarter moulded legs joined by stretchers.
A Rare Mid C18th English George II Faded Mahogany Tea Table
AA1841
The demilune shaped, hinged top above a deep oval frieze, housing a brass escutcheon and Georgian wire-bow key. Resting on shaped slender cabriole legs, with a rear gate-leg, terminating on pad feet.
The top opening to reveal a deep space where the valuable tea was once locked away from their servants.
The escutcheon, lock and strike plate have been removed over a century ago. We made a faux brass lock case, fitted a suitable escutcheon and added a period wire-bow key.
The rear having a demilune drop leaf and a cabriole gate-leg opening to support the leaf, making a small circular tea table.
These tables are rare. This one had been restored many years ago, we removed the heavy French polish by heavily cutting back and rebuilding a softer wax finish.
Note: all four pad feet have signs of old repairs (as expected) the patina overall is appealing.
The plain four plank top above a plain lower triple scratch moulded frieze, resting on baluster turned legs, joined by stretchers.
Note: This is a fantastic example of a mid 17th Century table, having missing knots, signs of many old repairs done over the past 350 years, even showing scattered borer holes.
Oak being such a hard wood borer usually avoid oak (except for the sap areas) and munch on the elms, walnut and fruitwoods, period oak should always show signs of minor borer.
Provenance: purchased from John Dunn Antiques 1976
