Archive for the ‘Gothic Revival Sideboards’ Category

GEORGE IV HARDWOOD CHAIRS - BOW-FRONTED CORNER CUPBOARD - SECRETAIRE CABINET BOOKCASE - REGENCY DINING CHAIRS - ANGLO-INDIAN JARDINIERE STAND

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

GEORGE IV HARDWOOD CHAIRS - BOW-FRONTED CORNER CUPBOARD - SECRETAIRE CABINET BOOKCASE - REGENCY DINING CHAIRS - ANGLO-INDIAN JARDINIERE STAND
A SET OF six GEORGE IV HARDWOOD CHAIRS, the
curved toprails carved with leaves and ending in scrolls,
and with simpler crossbars, the drop-in seats on sabre
legs, circa 1825.
A GOOD GEORGE IV GILTWOOD CONVEX MIRROR,
the plate enclosed by [...]

Antique Gothic Revival Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

19th Century Gothic Revival Sideboard
The Gothic Revival sideboard had long been a popular decorative and archi-
tectural style in Europe. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill at Twickenham, England (1749-77), was a Gothic folly of monumental scale, and even Robert Adam had worked in the Gothic style.
Unlike the purified geometricity of classical styles from Greece and Rome, European [...]