Unusually well-proportioned – “it doesn’t look quite as daft as some” said Mr Rogers Jones – the dresser incorporates a white dial clock by Robert Jones of Ruthin, a scalloped and pierced cornice and a secret drawer concealed within the bank of spice drawers. It is on the market for the first time in at least four generations.
At a Rogers Jones June 24 sale in Colwyn Bay, that also includes a late 18th century dresser from the Conway Valley, it carries an estimate of £7000-10,000.
Here’s a snappy dresser
David Rogers Jones has sold a lot of Welsh dressers in his 44 years as an auctioneer in the principality but only two of this rare form incorporating a grandfather clock. Peculiar to the mid-Wales county of Merionethshire, the form, c.1810, is well-known in the reference books but this is the first the auctioneer has seen since he sold another 15-20 years ago. And it’s a great example.
