Name of Object:

Dresser

Location:

`Ayn Najm, Lebanon

Holding Institution:

Lebanese Heritage Museum

 About The Lebanese University, `Ayn Najm

Date of Object:

19th century

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Woodwork; bone, ceramic

Provenance:

Turkey

Description:

This wooden dresser contains four large drawers and one thin upper drawer. It is topped with a marble slab and rectangular mirror in a wooden frame, decorated with a wooden crest and carved with floral patterns. The wood is covered in a mosaic of bone or ceramic pieces, organised in a floral design. Each drawer has a keyhole and is opened by two individually painted knobs.

Type of Object

Furniture; woodwork

Citation of this web page:

Marie Therese Moujabber "Dresser" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;lb;41;en

Prepared by: Marie Therese Moujabber
Copyedited by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: LB 052