Posts Tagged ‘French’

George III mahogany Knife Box, rosewood and brass-bound Writing Slope, Victorian Tunbridgeware maple and rosewood Sewing Box, Victorian Tunbridgeware rosewood Box

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

George III mahogany Knife Box, rosewood and brass-bound Writing Slope, Victorian Tunbridgeware maple and rosewood Sewing Box, Victorian Tunbridgeware rosewood Box
A Japanese black lacquer and
mother-of-pearl inlaid Stationery
Cabinet, late 19th Century, of
wedge-shaped form, decorated
throughout with birds and flowers
overlaid with gilt, the pair of doors and
hinged top revealing compartments,
40cm. wide; lft. 4m.
An octagonal tortoiseshell-veneered Tea Caddy, 19th [...]

EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, Louis XVI MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, MILANESE MARQUETRY COMMODE

Monday, December 28th, 2009

EMPIRE ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, Louis XVI MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, MILANESE MARQUETRY COMMODE

A Louis XVI MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the rectangular marble top
above a frieze drawer outlined with brass mouldings, the brass moulded fall front enclos-
ing a fitted interior of drawers and pigeon-holes above three long drawers brass-moulded
and flanked [...]

EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU CANDELABRA, ROYAL GILTWOOD BERGERE, A GOOD EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, BRONZE-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDE TABLE

Monday, December 28th, 2009

EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU CANDELABRA, ROYAL GILTWOOD BERGERE, A GOOD EMPIRE ORMOLU AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, BRONZE-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDE TABLE
A GOOD PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU CANDELABRA, each in the form
of a winged female figure supporting on her head a tapering column and a star-studded
globe which supports a gueridon with a candle-nozzle and is [...]

ASH AND ELM SPINNING WHEEL, GEORGIAN ОAK BIBLE BOX, OAK WALL BRACKET, ОAK MULE CHEST, OAK COFFER, ОAK HANGING CORNER WALL CUPBOARD

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

ASH AND ELM SPINNING WHEEL, GEORGIAN ОAK BIBLE BOX, OAK WALL BRACKET, ОAK MULE CHEST, OAK COFFER, ОAK HANGING CORNER WALL CUPBOARD
AN ASH AND ELM SPINNING WHEEL,
the 27in spokes wheel on a stool
base with four supports, early 19th
century.
A MID GEORGIAN ОAK BIBLE BOX, the
rectangular top with a molded
edge enclosing a compartment
and two secret drawers, (26cm) [...]

BRONZE AND GILT-BRONZE CHANDELIER - NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT COFFER - WROUGHT-IRON STRONG BOX - GENOESE WALNUT CABINET - FLEMISH CABINET ON STAND - DUTCH PAINTED THREE-FOLD CHIMNEY BOARD

Friday, December 25th, 2009

BRONZE AND GILT-BRONZE CHANDELIER - NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT COFFER - WROUGHT-IRON STRONG BOX - GENOESE WALNUT CABINET - FLEMISH CABINET ON STAND - DUTCH PAINTED THREE-FOLD CHIMNEY BOARD
A PAIR OF ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS, with flower-
cast nozzles and the circular engine-turned stems
with feather tops, on circular bases cast with lyres and
butterflies, Hin. high (28cm.) circa 1820, one [...]

FLEMISH ARMADA CHEST - ELMWOOD BOARDED STOOL - CARVED AND INLAID OAK CHEST - CARVED OAK ARMCHAIR - STANDING LIVERY CUPBOARD

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

FLEMISH ARMADA CHEST - ELMWOOD BOARDED STOOL - CARVED AND INLAID OAK CHEST - CARVED OAK ARMCHAIR - STANDING LIVERY CUPBOARD
A FLEMISH ARMADA CHEST in iron overlaid with interlaced riveted
strapwork, with a thirteen-tongue interior sprung lock, lft. 7in.
high by 3ft. 2in. wide (48cm. by 96cm.) late,17th Century.
A DUTCH OAK SPICE CABINET with a rectangular moulded [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Art Nouveau Sideboards

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Art Nouveau Sideboards
Emerging at the very end of the century, the Art Nouveau style produced sideboards which, light, ornamental and organic in conception, was hardly as ponderous as the blocky pieces of the contemporary arts and crafts
movement. These were as heavily formed as they were laden with social significance.
Representing the first major break from the [...]