Regency Mahogany Bowfront Chest with Brass Handles, 1700s from Charteris House
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Regency Bowfront chest of three long graduated brass handled drawers, upon bracket feet provenance from estates of lord & lady charteris stanway house. Stanway House is a Jacobean manor house, located near the village of Stanway in Gloucestershire, England. The manor of Stanway was owned by Tewkesbury Abbey for 800 years[1] then for 500 years by the Tracy family and their descendants, the Earls of Wemyss and March. Stanway House, originally constructed in the late 16th and early 17th century for the Tracy family, is a Grade I listed building. The gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, was a frequent visitor during summers in the 1920s, until 1932. Parts of the 1996 television adaptation of Emma and The Libertine were also filmed here. In 2015 the television adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall...
Antique Late 18th Century English Regency Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Brass
