Posts Tagged ‘Antique’

LOUIS XVI MARBLE, BRONZE AND ORMOLU PENDULE, DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SIDE CABINET, ORMOLU AND BRONZE WALL CLOCK

Monday, December 28th, 2009

LOUIS XVI MARBLE, BRONZE AND ORMOLU PENDULE, DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SIDE CABINET, ORMOLU AND BRONZE WALL CLOCK
A RARE AND VERY IMPORTANT LOUIS XVI MARBLE, BRONZE AND ORMOLU PENDULE
A CERCLES TOURNANTS attributed to Thomire, the enamel hour and minute rings decorated in the manner of Coteau with exceptionally finely drawn gilt [...]

NORTH ITALIAN PAINTED CHAIRS - DUTCH MAHOGANY COMMODE - PAINTED DISPLAY TABLE - ELM CHEST OF DRAWERS - WALNUT SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT - EXPORT LACQUER WORK TABLE

Friday, December 25th, 2009

NORTH ITALIAN PAINTED CHAIRS - DUTCH MAHOGANY COMMODE - PAINTED DISPLAY TABLE - ELM CHEST OF DRAWERS - WALNUT SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT - EXPORT LACQUER WORK TABLE
A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN PAINTED CHAIRS, the moulded cartouche-shaped backs with pierced splats, the stuffed seats on moulded cabriole legs, circa 1765.
AN ITALIAN KINGWOOD- AND PARQUETRY-VENEERED
COMMODE, the serpentine [...]

Antique Vicorian, Edwardian and 1920`s Sideboards

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Antique Vicorian, Edwardian and 1920`s Sideboards
By 1860 the sideboard had followed the evolution of styles in much the same way as other Victorian furniture, with a few slight differences. From its original, Adam form, it became a heavier, end-pedimented piece made in sub-classical, usually Grecian, style with a heavy, drawered top connecting the two end [...]

Antique English Sideboards

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

English Sideboards
In England, dining-room furniture only began to develop as functional purpose-made pieces from c.1730 onwards, with side tables made specifically for serving rather than merely displaying dishes. The first recognizable sideboards were contemporary with the work of the Adam brothers (the middle decades of the eighteenth century) and consisted of a heavy side table [...]

Antique 18th Century American Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

1700`s American Rococo Sideboards
In America, the Rococo sideboard emerged as a distinctly restrained version of the European style : interiors were hardly as fanciful as their European counterparts, and drawing room walls were ornamented with architectural pediments and rectangular panels rather than gilt cartouches, in a persistence of the Palladian style. Japanning was popular, especially [...]

1920`s Art Deco Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
The era that would dismiss the swirls of the Art Nouveau style for the streamlined rationality of machine-age design also witnessed the Art Deco style sideboard, which shared some qualities of each. At the turn of the century, European interest in Indo-Persian exotica was aroused by the displays at the Asian [...]

Queen Anne Sideboards

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Antique 18th Century Queen Anne Sideboards
18th Century French forms, and the French Rococo ornamental vocabulary, were extremely influential throughout Europe, where sideboards and other pieces in the relaxed Louis XV manner were made well into the century in Spain, Portugal, Italy, North America and elsewhere.
The supple, undulating forms created by Daniel Marot, Jean Berain and [...]

Antique Empire and Regency Style Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

French Empire Style Sideboards
Empire sideboards were first hand made in 1802 of the Voyage daps la Basse et Haute Egypte, a collection of drawings by Baron Vivant-Denon, who had accompanied Napoleon on his excursion to Syria and Egypt in 1798-1801, heightened the interest in Egypt that Napoleon’s campaign had itself generated.
Sideboards designed by Napoleon’s architects, [...]

Antique 18th Century Neo Classical and Adam Sideboards

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Antique Neo Classical and Adam Sideboards
English Neo Classical sideboard. The satinwood and yew tambour shutter opens to reveal a fitted desk interior. Beneath this is a long drawer with a frieze. The scrolling foliage pattern, brass ring pulls, and etched
wyverns are all typical Neoclassical motifs. The sideboards has square, inlaid, tapering legs and brass feet [...]

18th Century Antique French Sideboards. 1700`s Rococo Louis XV Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

XVIII Century Antique French Sideboards. 1700`s  Rococo Louis XV Sideboards.
18th Century French sideboards were handmade after accession of Philip of Orleans as French Regent upon the death of Louis XIV in 1700 marked the beginning of a transition from the unaccommodating formalities of the Baroque towards the more animated Rococo. The migration of the French [...]