Edwardian Mahogany Vanity Stand / Dressing table 1900-1910
1. Historical Style & Period
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Item Name / Nomenclature: Edwardian Mahogany Vanity Stand / dressing table
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Era: Edwardian Period (circa 1900s–1910s).
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Style: Edwardian Arts & Crafts / Sheraton Revival Hybrid. Features clean vertical lines, functional compact proportions, and subtle decorative fretwork characteristic of turn-of-the-century English bedroom furniture.
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Function: Gentleman's Shaving & Grooming Stand. Designed for personal grooming in a bedroom or dressing room, providing an eye-level mirror, surface area for a shaving basin and brush, and organized storage for razors, soaps, and towels.
2. Key Architectural & Decorative Features
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Adjustable Octagonal Mirror: Mounted on a vertical wooden pillar with slender spindle supports, allowing the octagonal bevel-edged mirror to swivel and adjust in height.
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Galleried Top & Towel Rails: The upper shelf is enclosed by a raised shaped gallery back, flanked by outward-curving side brackets designed as integrated towel rails or hanging hooks.
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Storage Carcass: Features a dual short-drawer section fitted with brass drop handles above a single framed cupboard door for discrete storage of grooming toiletries.
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Gothic/Geometric Fretwork Spandrels: Decorative pierced wood fretwork panels brace the corners under the cabinet body, adding architectural interest to the open frame.
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Slender Legs with Undershelf: Supported on straight, slender square legs anchored by a full-width lower potboard/tier shelf for additional structural stability and display space.
- Measurement : 132cm high x 58cm wide