A wonderful late 18th century Georgian Welsh oak lowboy, in excellent condition and with glorious untouched colour and surface. It is made from beautifully figured Welsh oak and notably, the top is made from two pieces of highly figured and book-matched oak.

It retains the original brass swan-neck handles and escutcheon, although no lock was ever fitted. The drawer linings, runners & backboard are original.

The decorative scroll seen under the small drawers is a detail that we have seen on other 18th & 19th century oak furniture from the Towy valley, including a bureau from a farm in Llanddeusant and a chest of drawers made near Gwynfe, could this feature perhaps indicate a local tradition or a particular Towy valley workshop?

Towy Valley, Carmarthenshire, circa 1790

34¼” wide x 19¼”deep x 30¾”high / 87cm wide x 49cm deep x 78cm high

£2950

(Lowboy – a table with symmetrical arrangement of drawers around a knee-hole.)