Name/Title
Dresser with MirrorContext
American, ca 1870-1890. Eastlake style walnut dresser with three drawers and arch mirror in an ornately carved frame.
The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). Eastlake furniture rejected Victorian curves and dramatic high-relief ornamentation, instead promoting designs that reduced furniture into simpler geometric shapes. This dresser with mirror presents ornamental details popular in Eastlake designs (wooden knobs or pulls, carved leaves, acorns or other forms of nature).Acquisition
Accession
1973.01Source or Donor
Wilkerson and Hutcheson Estates,Acquisition Method
Gift