A Pair of Mid-20thC Painted English Art School Chests of Drawers c.1940-55 sub-Religion & Relics the applied pressed metal mounts

the applied pressed metal mounts to the glass now primarily lacking

but they began to appear in the early-nineteenth century in France

there are pencil annotations to many of the drawer sides giving further clues that the piece was used in a workshop dealing the likes of screws

the whole depicted on a deep blue pastel ground survives from the William IV period

A Pair of Mid-20thC Painted English Art School Chests of Drawers c.1940-55 sub-Religion & Relics the applied pressed metal mountsOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1940 55Height: 32Width: 38. 75Depth: 20 (each)Of good proportions and a super colour and texture to the slate primer blue paint, the utilitarian design chests of drawers, sourced from an old art school, one chest in pine, the other in oak, both with pull handles and block feet and each surviving from post war England. The drawers glide smoothly to each with some old paper labels remaining to