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 [...]

GEORGE III MAHOGANY CORNER LAP TABLE, DUTCH WALNUT AND PAINTED BUREAU BOOKCASE, MAHOGANY GAMES TABLE, MARQUETRY  CENTRE  TABLE
AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CORNER LAP TABLE, the top with
reentrant corners on square molded supports, 28V2in (72cm) by 37in (94cm) extended, the top mid 18th century.
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STANDING
CORNER CUPBOARD, the upper part with a dentil [...]

WALNUT BUREAU, GEORGE II RED WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, MAHOGANY WINE COOLER, DUTCH MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU, SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE
A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU, the fall front enclosing a good fitted interior with a well, above two short and two long graduated cock-beaded drawers on bracket feet, 40in (102cm)
square, first quarter 18th century/, restored and with later handles [...]

GEORGE I TAPESTRY-COVERED WALNUT ARMCHAIR - WALNUT WING ARMCHAIR - MAHOGANY BEDSIDE CUPBOARDS - MAHOGANY TOILET MIRROR - A PAIR OF MAHOGANY CANDLESTICKS
A FINE GEORGE I TAPESTRY-COVERED WALNUT ARMCHAIR, the arched back and
seat covered in a Soho tapestry woven with brightly coloured summer flowers on a pale
yellow ground within strapwork, the shaped arms on shepherd’s [...]

SIDEBOARDS  reproduction, 1880-1930: 18th century and early 19th century mahogany
The sideboard almost as Adam originally saw it in 1760. Two pedestals flanking a table with a wine cooler under it. The pedestals have urn-shaped vases lined to take iced water for drinking and hot water for washing silver. The pedestals could be used as plate [...]

SIDEBOARDS  art nouveau and progressive, 1890-1915
We have explained elsewhere how art nouveau is a term now used to describe furniture which many of its English original designers would have hotly refuted. The Scottish school and the Century Guild are another
matter, since their sinuous designs are much more akin to Continental art nouveau.
In this section we [...]

SIDEBOARDS  ‘modern’, 1920-1930
In this section a number of interesting designs which are quite modern in spirit and technique are illustrated. They are mostly by `famous’ designers with perhaps the exception of Percy Wells. In due course it will be possible to produce further illustrations as more research and identification work is carried out  the real [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]