Description
An antique, early 18th Century Walnut Dressing Table Mirror of excellent colour and patina, with an arrangement of a double bank of drawers. Ca 1730.
Walnut veneers set with herringbone inlays. The base drawer concave. Original escutcheons. The later mirror plate contained within a gilt gesso margin.
Ralph Edwards in ‘The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture’ illustrates an almost identical walnut mirror on p. 381 photograph 10 (G.L. Riley Coll.).
