Low dresser
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Painted pine, pitch pine, metal, brass
Measurements
90.5 x 198.5 x 60.8 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207047
Summary
A painted pine and pine low kitchen dresser, English, mid-19th century. The pitch pine top with low painted rail to its rear edge. The painted base fitted with a flush-paneled drawer fitted with a brass knob handle to the left-hand of two banks of three edge-moulded and graduated short drawers, fitted with painted metal handles.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.