Dressing table

Date1740-1753

Artist/Maker John Elliott

MediumOak

DimensionsOH: 27 1/2"; OW: 30"; OD: 19"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1973-169

DescriptionRectangular dressing table with four cabriole legs on turned pad feet; three-board top molded on front and side edges, rounded on front corners, and pinned to frame through upper surface; sides and back tenoned into legs; knee blocks glued to surface of sides and apron; one tier of three drawers, each supported on two rabbeted supports tenoned into front and back of frame; drawer fronts thumbnail molded and set flush with front of table; drawers dovetailed, bottoms set into rabbets with wrought sprigs, and each fitted with two full-length bottom glue strips mitered off at rear end; top rear edge of drawer backs rounded off to prevent binding.
MarkingsPrinted label "John Elliott,/ Cabinet[-maker]..Chair-maker/ Joyner....[Tu]rner;/ [A]t the Sign of the ....Coffins, opposite the King's/ .....Arms in High-street; LEICESTER: Makes/ and sells all sorts of Goods in the above mention'd Branches,/ in [m]ohogany, Walnut-tree &c. Intirely n.., and as cheap/ as in LONDON./ He also hangs the new Fashion Spring..Bells in Gentle/m[en]'s Houses; in the same manner as done in LONDON./ NOTE. Looking-glasses Silver'd and Fram'd, at reason/[a]ble Rates."