John Sandon
Consultant
Lot 59TP
A George III solid and well-figured burr-oak chest of drawers, circa 1760
31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £13,750 inc. premium
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A George III solid and well-figured burr-oak chest of drawers, circa 1760
The top of three boards with narrow double-reeded edge, above four long lip-moulded drawers, the wider top drawer cutting slightly into the inner edge of the applied end pilasters, on an inverted-breakfront plinth base, boarded sides, 94cm wide x 49cm deep x 81cm high, (37in wide x 19in deep x 31 1/2in high)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Roger Warner, The High Street, Burford, Oxfordshire
Sold Christie's, 'The Roger Warner Collection', South Kensington, 20 - 21 January 2009, Lot 335, catalogued as probably North Country
The slightly unusual design of this chest of drawers is in part due to the physical nature of burr-timber. Burr-wood is very hard to work with hand tools (or on a lathe) as the grain is twisted and interlocked. It is therefore not particularly easy to create tenon-joints for joined construction, hence boarded construction is mainly used throughout here.