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table, dressing

human history
  • Other Name

    desk

    low boy (alternative name)

    vanity (alternative name)

  • Description

    dressing table made from New Zealand native timbers. It features a lower desk and an upper section fastened together with screws at the back. These look as though they were made separately and combined together. On the lower section has three drawers on each side with increasing in size towards the bottom, these also have locks and brass ring handles. In between is a recess backed with wood and a lower shelf and a decorative scroll carving below the table top.

    On the top of the dresser is a mirror flanked on either side by two double door cabinets with three drawers on the inside. These are decorated with inlayed compass design in different woods and inside each drawer is a different wood with a decorative knob with a four part inlay design. Below the mirror inbetween the two cabinet is a narrow flip lid compartment. There is decorative scroll work carving around the mirror and turned wood banister below the mirror above the aforementioned compartment. Various woods are used throughout including mottled or burr wood. Each set of the lower drawer section has four bun feet with casters.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1963.180
  • Accession Date
    15 Nov 1963
  • Other Id

    2002X1.20 (temporary accession number)

  • Department
table, dressing, 1963.180, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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