A CEDAR PEDESTAL SIDEBOARD, SIGNED I. SAUNDERS, TASMANIAN, CIRCA 1840

of simple form with a pointed arch back, three frieze drawers and panelled cupboard doors to each pedestal. the label verso inscribed 'I. Saunders, Cabinet Maker & Upholsterer, 49 Castle street East, Oxford Street, between the .... and the Mar..., NB' A. John Saunders, cabinet-maker, is listed in 'Melville's Van Diemen's Land Annual (1837). I Saunders is recorded as the maker of a cedar clothes press. Fahey and Simpson note that perhaps his use of an altered label was an attempt at recycling those from a previous address, or of an English relative, on work executed in Hobart
184CM WIDE, 70CM DEEP, 121CM HIGH LITERATURE

For a similar paper label see Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, Australian Furniture, Pictorial History and Dictionary, 1788 - 1938, Sydney, 1998, p. 115.