A Regency Black Painted Pine Dwarf Bookcase c.1810-15 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Ironic now that this type

Ironic now that this type of paintwork is more prized commercially than a mahogany chest of this period

He was an important man and his status and pecking order in society was somewhere between the Parish Priest

and some veneer missing from the rear edge but aside from this

The primitive construction

A Regency Black Painted Pine Dwarf Bookcase c.1810-15 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Ironic now that this typeOrigin: EnglishPeriod: RegencyProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1810 15Height: 36. 5Width: 16Depth: 8. 5Of diminutive proportions, the Regency period black painted pine dwarf bookcase, with floral gilt decoration to the frieze drawer and front supports and line decoration throughout, having a ruby red painted gallery top, the main section with one adjustable shelf with seven differing height slots, the whole standing on elegant tapering legs and surviving