Dressing Table

Dressing Table

Designer: William Burges, 1827-1881

Manufacturer: Story & Co.

1867

Mahogany painted red, carved, stencilled and gilded: inset with paintings on glass, bevelled mirrors, marble mosaic inlays of shell and tinsel

61 inches (154.9cm); Depth. 27inches (69.9cm.); Width: 38 inches (96.5cm.)

Fitted with mounts of steel, nickel and tin, also with three small portraits in oils of female members of the Crocker family by William Smallfield.

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