Posts Tagged ‘design’

George II mahogany Bookcase, Edwardian burr walnut veneered and inlaid Occasional Table, Victorian rosewood Centre Table, George III mahogany carver Chair

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

George II mahogany Bookcase, Edwardian burr walnut veneered and inlaid Occasional Table, Victorian rosewood Centre Table, George III mahogany carver Chair
A George II mahogany Bookcase, with a
pair of fielded panel doors above candle slides,
100cm. wide, formerly with a cabinet base.
Seven various Chairs, comprising: two
ash spindle-back rush-seat chairs, early 19th
Century, including an armchair, an ash
ladder-back rush-seat [...]

LOMBARD WALNUT COMMODES, Louis XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE, LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, Louis XVI SIDE CHAIRS

Monday, December 28th, 2009

LOMBARD WALNUT COMMODES, Louis XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE, LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, Louis XVI SIDE CHAIRS
AN UNUSUAL SUITE OF GERMAN GROTTO SEAT FURNITURE comprising a three-seat
settee, six armchairs and a rocking chair, the tall carved silvered backs and seats with gilt-
wood dolphin arms on rockwork legs, the rocking chair [...]

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 [...]

ROSEWOOD WELLINGTON CHEST - WALNUT BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE - WALNUT SIDEBOARD - ROSEWOOD STOOL IN LOUIS XVI STYLE

Friday, December 25th, 2009

ROSEWOOD WELLINGTON CHEST - WALNUT BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE - WALNUT SIDEBOARD - ROSEWOOD STOOL IN LOUIS XVI STYLE
A ROSEWOOD WELLINGTON CHEST with
ten long drawers retained by flat columns headed by lotus capitals, 52 by 24in; 132 by 61cm, c. 1840.
A GOOD ‘GEORGE Iii’ SERPENTINE MAHO-
GANY CHEST, the moulded top with a brushing slide above three graduated [...]

A Louis XV PROVINCIAL WALNUT COMMODE - GERMAN MAHOGANY ARMOIRE - ITALIAN WALNUT PARQUETRY COMMODE - DANISH OAK AND MARQUETRY BUREAU CABINET

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

A Louis XV PROVINCIAL WALNUT COMMODE - GERMAN MAHOGANY ARMOIRE - ITALIAN WALNUT PARQUETRY COMMODE - DANISH OAK AND MARQUETRY BUREAU CABINET
A Louis XV PROVINCIAL WALNUT COMMODE, the
inverted serpentine front with three short and two long
moulded panelled drawers, with moulded corners and
panelled sides, 2ft. 6V2in. high by 4ft. 2in. wide (80cm. by
127cm.) mid-18th Century.
A Louis [...]

MAHOGANY TOILET MIRROR - MARBLE-TOPPED SERPENTINE MARQUETRY COMMODES - BOW-FRONT CHEST - NORTH COUNTRY WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS - PAINTED D-SHAPED SIDE CABINET

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

MAHOGANY TOILET MIRROR - MARBLE-TOPPED SERPENTINE MARQUETRY COMMODES - BOW-FRONT CHEST - NORTH COUNTRY WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS - PAINTED D-SHAPED SIDE CABINET
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TOILET MIRROR with rectangular crossbanded frame,
the supports with acorn finials and the base with a pair of drawers, on bracket feet, lft.
11 in. wide (58cm.)
antique lamps
A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE III [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Antique 18th Century Sideboards. English, French, German, Italian Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Eighteenth Century English, French, German and Italian Sideboards.
1700`s sideboards designs based on the French Rococo shape were still popular in the latter half of the 18th century The shape of the sideboard was slow to adopt Neoclassical
styling and, until the 1780s, sideboards with undulating curves and cabriole legs, like those of Rococo sideboards, continued to [...]

English Rococo Sideboards

Monday, October 12th, 2009

XVIII Century English Sideboards Rococo Style
In mid-century and in the late 18th century, the French Rococo sideboards caught on in England, inspired largely by the engravings of H. F. Gravelot and by improved peace-time relations with France. In England the
cave-like rocaille, and the cult of the picturesque that accompanied it, became popular along with ornaments [...]