Is this early 20th c or just made to look older Serpentine dresser

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The back makes me think it is older but there are staples holding the beveled mirror in place. Maybe that was replaced? It does look really good for a piece that I think might be at least 50 years old or older. I think it is a reproduction of a much older style but I am not good at furniture. I am trying to learn and have googled a whole bunch but I see other like listings, not exact, that are all over the place with age, style, region and woods. This belongs to a friend of mine. She was trying to give it away and I told her that I thought she could make a little more than what she was asking for because it appears to be a nicer piece than she knew. I am just asking for some help to help her out!









Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you

 

JMHO. psyche dresser, 1900 - 1930s

 

Gotta look that up Never heard of anything referred to like that!! Thank you

 

not groovin on the staples...

 

I know but was thinking the mirror had been replaced??

 

1920s -30s.
@verybrad

 

Any idea on the wood? I can never guess right. Maybe just a veneer?

 

Yes.

 

maybe......but that would be an expensive mirror to have cut and beveled to that size and shape... still....?

 

Even though it's hard to focus with eyes not able to converge to focus, and OP's image of the back is OUT of focus, the ONLY place I see ANY staples IS on the back of the MIRROR......I would suggest the mirror has to have been replaced???? Someone must have really loved that piece at one time!!!!

 

Or the backing became loose for some reason and someone just reinforced the backing by stapling it.
It would have been very expensive to replace a curved beveled mirror.

 

Circa 1910 mahogany veneer serpentine front dresser. Think the staples were just added.

 

I haven't run across the term "psyche dresser."

To me this looks like a dresser done in the style of Horner, who produced similar mahogany pieces ca. 1890. Agree on the ca. 1910 date.

 

VERY true @clutteredcloset49 ....hadn't even thought of that.....especially since I'm not sure I see the staples going ALL the way around the mirror!!!!

 

https://www.google.ch/search?q=psyc...WAQ_AUIDigB&biw=1184&bih=548&dpr=1.62#imgrc=_

 

I think this is new terminology for a Vanity dresser.

Greek goddess Psyche
Psyche meaning of the mind and soul.

 

or perhaps a local variation because in furniture a psyche by itself is a tilting mirror, whereas on other dressers they are fix ?

 

Never heard it called that before. I thought tilting mirrors were called chevals.

 

Fid are you in Europe?
Difference in name because of locations?

 

yes. in France and elsewhere on the continent such mirrors are called Psyche or in French Psyché for a very long time already.