A Late Regency Faux Bamboo Painted Pine Washstand c.1825-30 reserved the original mercury glass mirror

the original mercury glass mirror plate

So it is time to tell the tale of how this chap is so unusually preserved

being functional

The many historical locations noted include the Giants Causeway County Antrim

he wrote “At the present time many try to convert the name of this bird into “Scots” fancy

A Late Regency Faux Bamboo Painted Pine Washstand c.1825-30 reserved the original mercury glass mirrorOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late RegencyProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1825 30Width: 34. 5Height: 39. 5Depth: 20The original painted pine carcass showing the wonderful soft lemon yellow and putty rust coloured paint worn thoroughly and consistently with age, having a shaped gallery back with extenuated scrolled ends, with a vacant hole for the wash basin, to a lower shelf, the whole raised on elegant faux bamboo legs and surviving from late Regency period