The Jones Family Dresser, Rhayader, 1826
Substantial in scale and highly unusual in that its original invoice, supplied by Thomas Hope for Edward Jones Esq. in August 1826, survives. We bought this splendid dresser earlier this year from his direct descendants. It had been at the family farm, just outside Rhayader, since that date. According to family tradition, the Jones`s have occupied the site since the mid 16th century.
The dresser is made from dense native oak, most likely supplied by Edward Jones from timber felled on his farm. The drawer linings and most of the backboards are of pine with a variety of woods used for the cockbeading. Stylistically, the dresser could have been made a generation earlier.
The finely moulded cornice sits above a striking frieze with a row of pierced semi-circles and five shelves with scratch-moulded fronts which have never had hooks from which to hang things. The base is unusually shallow from front to back for such a large dresser and has a twin plank top with a finely moulded edge and four drawers above four, twin-panel doors, each enclosing a shelf, on stile feet. The flush panels in the side are edged with cockbeading.
Literature:
The dresser and its invoice are both illustrated in “Welsh Furniture 1250-1950” by Richard Bebb, Vol ll, page 256. fig. 1126.
Dimensions:
259 cms wide at the cornice, 230 cms high.
Substantial in scale and highly unusual in that its original invoice, supplied by Thomas Hope for Edward Jones Esq. in August 1826, survives. We bought this splendid dresser earlier this year from his direct descendants. It had been at the family farm, just outside Rhayader, since that date. According to family tradition, the Jones`s have occupied the site since the mid 16th century.
The dresser is made from dense native oak, most likely supplied by Edward Jones from timber felled on his farm. The drawer linings and most of the backboards are of pine with a variety of woods used for the cockbeading. Stylistically, the dresser could have been made a generation earlier.
The finely moulded cornice sits above a striking frieze with a row of pierced semi-circles and five shelves with scratch-moulded fronts which have never had hooks from which to hang things. The base is unusually shallow from front to back for such a large dresser and has a twin plank top with a finely moulded edge and four drawers above four, twin-panel doors, each enclosing a shelf, on stile feet. The flush panels in the side are edged with cockbeading.
Literature:
The dresser and its invoice are both illustrated in “Welsh Furniture 1250-1950” by Richard Bebb, Vol ll, page 256. fig. 1126.
Dimensions:
259 cms wide at the cornice, 230 cms high.
Substantial in scale and highly unusual in that its original invoice, supplied by Thomas Hope for Edward Jones Esq. in August 1826, survives. We bought this splendid dresser earlier this year from his direct descendants. It had been at the family farm, just outside Rhayader, since that date. According to family tradition, the Jones`s have occupied the site since the mid 16th century.
The dresser is made from dense native oak, most likely supplied by Edward Jones from timber felled on his farm. The drawer linings and most of the backboards are of pine with a variety of woods used for the cockbeading. Stylistically, the dresser could have been made a generation earlier.
The finely moulded cornice sits above a striking frieze with a row of pierced semi-circles and five shelves with scratch-moulded fronts which have never had hooks from which to hang things. The base is unusually shallow from front to back for such a large dresser and has a twin plank top with a finely moulded edge and four drawers above four, twin-panel doors, each enclosing a shelf, on stile feet. The flush panels in the side are edged with cockbeading.
Literature:
The dresser and its invoice are both illustrated in “Welsh Furniture 1250-1950” by Richard Bebb, Vol ll, page 256. fig. 1126.
Dimensions:
259 cms wide at the cornice, 230 cms high.
