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Bryn-y-Pys Hall, Overton: bow-fronted fitted cupboard in panelled room, 1956
Bryn-y-Pys Hall, Overton: bow-fronted fitted cupboard in panelled room, 1956
  • The secretaire bookcase has the label 'Bowen, cabinet maker and UPHOLSTERER, Lamas Street, CARMARTHEN' glued inside the first long drawer. The piece is made of pine veneered with mahogany. Its form, consisting of a glazed bookcase above a desk and four drawers, is typical of its period. The top edges of the secretaire and the edges of the drawers are finished with an ebony corner. The secretaire has retained its contemporary handles, which have oval repoussé back-plates with a reclining classical female. This is an important item of furniture because of the rarity of labelled Welsh pieces of the time and because of its near original finish, and high quality of craftsmanship. Little is known of Mr. Bowen except that he was at one time a sergeant in the Carmarthenshire Militia and that he died in 1807.
Mahogany Secretaire and Bookcase with rare maker's name (Bowen), c. 1800 [image 1 of 2]
Oak 'Deuddarn' (two-piece) cupboard, early 18th century
  • The main feature of the tridarn (three-piece cupboard) seen in this image is the extensive use of decorative inlay within the centre tier. This was done by placing pieces of holly and bog oak in hollowed-out sections of the oak to create chequer patterns. Within the central panel, the initials 'RG' and 'M' and the date '1695' have been carved along with Celtic interlacing on each side of the cupboard. This seems to suggest that the piece of furniture was especially made and presented on the occasion of a marriage, although this can not be substantiated.
Tridarn cupboard, from Fach Wen, Caernarfonshire, 1695
  • North Wales type dresser with enclosed cupboards at the base and two small cupboards in the rack. This shows a development in design from the tridarn cupboard rather than the south-Walian type dresser.
Dresser of north Wales-type, 18th century