I am looking for the maker, year and any value? I have seen several, but none with the scroll on the front doors. This one is unique! Most I've seen are very plain.
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Without company name, serial numbers, approx. age, this is hard to say. You could take all your pictures and show to professional dealer, for answers. They know what to look for, and the value!
Hi. I think this is an antique sideboard that is missing the mirror. It may have had shelves with the mirrors.
These are fancier, but along the line of what yours may have been:
www.chairish.com/
www.worthpoint.com/
Value is regional. Since it most likely isn't intact, the value will be less.
My best suggestion is to take it to a vintage reseller store and let them price and sell it to you for you.
Post back with an update!
This is a dry sink, didnt show pic of towel holder, kinda plain compared to rest of the piece. Will check with my friend that deals in antiques and let yall know! Thanks
I see now...my bad...to me the first picture looked like the mirror top was cut off and you just had a piece of frame left. That there is a towel rack there not pictured makes sense.
This is why it is super hard to comment on photos when looking at old pieces--it is so important to see the piece full on, sides, back, up close, drawer construction, hardware etc. I should have asked for more detail before commenting, so definitely my bad.
It is a very nice piece from what I can see. I brought it up on a bigger screen to zoom on all the details of what you have in the photos.
The sides and the bottom of the piece very craftsman in style--clean, straight lines (1920s ish in design--functional--Frank Lloyd Wright-ish). The handles and scroll work are more Victorian (late 1800s in design style)--a little fu fu decorative not functional.
When you are talking to your friend, see if he/she thinks you have a marriage piece, where at some point someone took a plainer piece and added the gingerbread and scrolls to make it more stylish.
It is possible that it is all original because some Craftsman-style pieces do have "gingerbread" but it is usually very simple patterns, a flower spray for example, and it would be carried through to each part of the piece...meaning there would be a matching piece on the towel rack. Your comment that the towel rack is very plain may mean the lower gingerbread was after market.
Whatever it is, I love what I can see and really hope you will post back what you learn from your friend. Thanks for sharing.
I'm still not sure this is a dry sink and tend to agree with Pghgirl's first posting that it appears to be a sideboard.
Not sure if the towel bar is original or if it is just part of something else.
Dry sinks were made to be a functional piece of furniture and were usually kinda hidden away from any visitors. Many were kept on the back porch.
Although some dry sinks did have smooth wooden tops (like yours) most had a recessed top to hold the water pitcher and bowl and some had a marble top.
Excerpt from a web site:
"The dry sink was a cabinet with a recessed area on top. More expensive dry sinks had these areas lined with copper or other waterproof material. The recessed area kept the water from the pitcher and bowl contained while someone washed up. The dry sink also had storage areas where extra towels and personal items would be kept. Generally, there was a hook, bar, or other device to hang up the towel.
Since you know someone that might be able to provide information we will all be interested in finding out what they say about what you have pictured.
Here is a link to a good definition of a dry sink:
antiques.lovetoknow.com/
This is not a drysink... It is a washstand... These were used like bedroom drysinks but did not have a sink as you can see...
A water pitcher and bowl sat on top and the vertical arms could either be a towel rack or could extend higher and have a tilting mirror in a frame matching the base...
This one is very late 19th or early 20th century...
I see a lot of confusion on these now but 60 years ago when I first learned about them, there was not...
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