The dressing-table in Illustration [27] also belongs to the writer. It is of walnut, like the majority of similar pieces, and is finely carved but is not so graceful as Illustration [365]. The handles are the original ones and are very large and handsome.
High chests and the accompanying dressing-tables continued in use until the later years of the eighteenth century.
Illus. 27.—Walnut Dressing-table, about 1770.
Hepplewhite’s book, published in 1789, contains designs for chests of drawers, extending nearly to the floor, with bracket feet, one having fluted columns at the corners, and an urn with garlands above the flat top. It is probable, however, that high chests of drawers were not made in any number after 1790.
CHAPTER II
BUREAUS AND WASHSTANDS