Kitchen Cabinets · English Country & Cottage
Apprentice-Made Oak Welsh Dresser
An oak Welsh dresser made by an apprentice cabinetmaker, with a tall plate rack and boarded back above a base of drawers and cupboards with shaped aprons.
Design characteristics
Welsh dressers combine a base of drawers and cupboards with a tall rack of open shelves for displaying plates. This apprentice piece shows the traditional details: a boarded back, a moulded cornice, shaped aprons and well-proportioned drawers. Dressers were often made as test pieces by apprentices because they demand accurate joinery across many parts. A Welsh dresser makes a beautiful built-in at the end of a kitchen run or in a dining room.
Classification
- Category
- Kitchen Cabinets
- Material
- Oak
- Motifs
- Plate rack, Dresser
- Photograph
- 2020
- Photographer
- Tangerineduel
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Painted joinery, dressers and plate racks, plain paneling and beamed ceilings. England and Wales · vernacular, 1600s onward.
