A table or cabinet fitted with mirrors, small drawers and compartments, used especially by ladies at their toilette. There have been many variations over the past two centuries. The great 18th century designers delighted in contriving elegant tables, ingeniously fitted with all kinds of sliding and hidden mirrors, drawers and cosmetic boxes. Some versions had small bookshelves and drawers in the superstructure, while others were plainer, square tables, with fold over lids which, when opened, revealed the mirrors and compartments.

Victorian dressing tables followed the prevailing fashions of the various revival styles, although the form became established as a table supported by scroll, turned or cabriole legs, with an oval or square mirror and a series of small drawers known as a Duchess dressing table. Another version consisted of two pedestals, fitted with drawers on either side of a cheval mirror.

Edwardian dressing tables were usually plainer, with typical turned more...

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A colonial kauri dressing table, four jewellery drawers, carved…

Colonial Kauri Dressing Table with Carved Mirror Supports

A colonial kauri dressing table, four jewellery drawers, carved supports for the mirror, the base with two half drawers and carved detail, one shelf, the drawers and mirror with mottled veneer. 116 x 450 182 cm.

A colonial mottled kauri duchess, carved detail to mirror with…

Mottled Kauri Duchess with Carved Details and Jewelry Drawers

A colonial mottled kauri duchess, carved detail to mirror with conforming carved supports, four jewellery drawers, the base with two half and two full width drawers, raised on turned feet, later restoration. 108 x 50 x 190 cm.

A colonial kauri dressing table, with two jewellery drawers,…

Colonial Kauri Dressing Table with Carved Details and Mirror

A colonial kauri dressing table, with two jewellery drawers, carved mirror supports, turned finials, two frieze drawers, carved and turned detail, a shelf to the base, the drawer fronts with mottled kauri veneer. 108 x 55 x 176 cm.

A kauri dressing table c1910, with mottled kauri door fronts,…

Mottled Kauri Dressing Table, c1910

A kauri dressing table c1910, with mottled kauri door fronts, height 172 cm, width 114 cm, depth 50 cm

John Mason (attributed), dressing table, Maryborough,…

Geometric Inlaid Dressing Table

John Mason (attributed), dressing table, Maryborough, Queensland, 19th century, inlaid geometric design in cedar, kauri pine, blackwood and Baltic pine secondary timbers, original glass knobs, 163 cm high, 93 cm wide, 56 cm deep

A late-Victorian kauri dressing table and mirror, with mottled…

Late-Victorian Kauri Dressing Table with Swivel Mirror

A late-Victorian kauri dressing table and mirror, with mottled kauri drawer fronts, the swivel mirror supported by carved brackets and surmounted by an anthemion carving. Purchased Tonson Garlick Cabinet Makers, Auckland, in 1897

Edwardian kauri pine Batwing dressing table, featuring birds…

Birds Eye Kauri Pine Batwing Dressing Table

Edwardian kauri pine Batwing dressing table, featuring birds eye kauri feature to drawer faces, 171 x 95 x 95 cm

A good colonial mottled kauri dressing table, the swing mirror…

Colonial Kauri Dressing Table with Swing Mirror

A good colonial mottled kauri dressing table, the swing mirror with carved and pierced scrolling pediment supported on two turned columns with single small drawers flanking, the shaped top with brake front frieze, supported on turned front columns, the…

William and James NorrisĀ . Colonial dressing table, circa 1870…

Serpentine Colonial Dressing Table

William and James NorrisĀ . Colonial dressing table, circa 1870 of serpentine form in solid mottled kauri, burr totara and rimu with an oval mirror over a lidded glove department flanked by six small drawers, raised on turned legs on a platform base. Width…

Kauri pine multi drawer dressing chest, with swivel mirror, 125…

Kauri Pine Dressing Chest with Swivel Mirror

Kauri pine multi drawer dressing chest, with swivel mirror, 125 cm wide,182 cm high

A New Zealand timbers dressing table, matching the above, in…

Mottled Kauri Dressing Table with Original Handles

A New Zealand timbers dressing table, matching the above, in mottled kauri, rewarewa and figured veneers, with sets of three drawers flanking a kneehole, all with original handles. 136 x 51 x 51 cm

Edwardian kauri pine mirrored back dressing table

Edwardian Kauri Pine Mirrored Dressing Table

Edwardian kauri pine mirrored back dressing table