The Upper White Dressing Room, West Hill, 1824

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Date:1824

Description:Mahogany furniture featured prominently in the Upper White Dressing Room at West Hill. A ‘Bowed front mahogany Dressing Table with Drawer Lock & Key’ was housed in the room, alongside a ‘Mahogany tray top Night Convenience’. A piece of furniture described as a ‘Corner Mahogany Basonstand with high fall down Splash board Pot cupboard & Drawer under Blue & white Bason & Ewer’ also featured in this room.

The bed in the Upper White Dressing Room appears to have been particularly lavish, described as a mahogany framed ‘French Couch Bedstead with stuffed ends and white Dimity Canopy furniture lined white calico’. The bed had a valence which was ‘trimmed with Muslin flounce’ and had a ‘Japanned & gilt Cornice & Lions head ornaments in the centre’.

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