A RARE LARGE AUSTRALIAN CEDAR DRESSER, CIRCA 1830
A RARE LARGE AUSTRALIAN CEDAR DRESSER, CIRCA 1830Estimate $40,000 – $60,000
- Lot Sold $70,000 (Hammer Price)
- $84,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
the upper section with a moulded cornice above three shelves with faux cock beading and fitted with plate racks, the lower section with two long and one central short drawer with matching faux cock-beading above an open pot stand, raised on a plinth base; 202CM WIDE, 68CM DEEP, 227CM HIGH
NOTE The base had at some time been enclosed by cupboard doors like those seen in later Colonial dressers made from pine, but originally it looked like this. There is also evidence of screw holes along the shelf fronts where originally rings would have hung;
PROVENANCE Booth Farm, Bathurst, Ken Oates, The John Buttsworth Collection