Kitchen Cabinets · English Country & Cottage
Housekeeper's Room Dresser, Copped Hall, Essex
A large painted dresser in the housekeeper's room at Copped Hall near Epping, Essex, with open shelves of blue-and-white china above drawers and cupboards.
Design characteristics
Large country houses had service rooms fitted with built-in dressers for china and linens. This one fills a wall, with open shelves of blue-and-white ware, a row of drawers and cupboards below, all painted. It shows how a dresser can scale up to become a storage wall. For a modern kitchen or butler's pantry, a wall-length dresser with open shelves is a strong alternative to rows of upper cabinets.
Classification
- Category
- Kitchen Cabinets
- Material
- Pine
- Motifs
- Plate rack, Built in dresser
- Photograph
- 2019
- Photographer
- Acabashi
- 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.
