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On entering the dining room at The Greyfriars, there is a mood change
from the grand and early proportions of the Great Hall. One enters a
cosy, compact and vividly bright little room, the spirit of which is
very much country Georgian. Perfectly suited to this cheerful environment
is the oak chest. It is known as a mule chest or drawerchest in that
it has a conventional lifting lid accessing storage above rows of drawers.
It is a little deeper and not as wide as many similar chests from the
second half of the 18th century, making it particularly useful and suitable
for the smaller room. More commonplace examples have only one row of
working drawers where this has two. The ogee feet, the ovolo lip moulding
to the drawers, the mahogany cross-banding, the purely decorative and
deliberately misleading false drawers, the swan-neck handles, the large
canted corners of solid mahogany all suggest a north-western origin
…indeed this style is often referred to as a Lancashire Mule Chest.
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