Clothes press
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
225 x 117 x 50.5 cm
Collection
Buttermere Valley, Cumbria
NT 1534555
Summary
Victorian mahogany clothes press; the top stage with canted cornice, crossbanded frieze and two cupboard doors with figured mahogany panels; the interior fitted with three open shelves alongside five drawers, the top one larger; the lower stage of four long drawers decreasing in height from bottom to top, the drawer fronts with cock-beading and wooden knobs.
Provenance
Bequest of Miss Annie Burns of Wood House, Buttermere, 1993.