A 19thC Painted Pine Bank of Thirty-Six Drawers c.1870

Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

A 19thC Painted Pine Bank of Thirty-Six Drawers c.1870Origin: English Period: Late Victorian & Later Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 & Later Width: 45 Height: 35. 75 Depth: 12. 5 (all at top) In largely original condition, the chocolate painted flight or bank of thirty six drawers each with brass knob handles and remnants of hand written workshop labels, the carcass with later added top and base, to include bracket feet, the sides, feet and top painted in olive green, the drawer fronts remaining

the text within an ornate border of floral scrolls

We can find an advertising entry in 1938

each surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century

notably to one of the feet

John and Milonga Cline

formed as the Devil in leather attire with large wings

though this piece is earlier which is easily surmised by the beautiful wear and patination it shows

whilst the setting and glass case both remain in sound order

London on the 11th of May

heavy pile it combines large uncluttered fields with the occasional geometric human or animal silhouette

since the Middle Ages

the rebirth of classical Greek and Roman characteristics in art led to the studies of the human anatomy