Posts Tagged ‘furniture’
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
18th Century-style mahogany Bureau-on-Chest, Victorian walnut and floral marquetry Side Cabinet, Chinese export lacquer Work Table, Chinese carved rosewood Jardiniere Stand
An 18th Century-style mahogany Bureau-on-Chest, circa 1920, the quarter veneered fall revealing a fitted interior, the serpentine-fronted commode base with two short and two
long graduated drawers, the canted corners above shaped bracket feet, 109cm. high [...]
Tags: 19th century, A GEORGE, ARMCHAIRS, baluster, base, black lacquer, BOOKCASE, BRASS, buffet, burr walnut, cabinet, cabriole, CARVED, Century-style, CHEST, CIRCULAR, columnar, commode, cornice, DINING, drawer, Drawers, EXPORT, FRONT, furniture, GEOR, George Ill-style, Gothic-style, HARDWOOD, INDIAN, inlaid, interior, Jardiniere, LACQUER, linenfold, Mahogany, MARQUETRY, pedestal dining table, seat, SETTLE, sideboard, SIMILAR, TABLE, TRIPOD, tripod table, walnut, WILLIAM, william iv
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Louis XV ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, BRONZE HANGING LANTERN, LOUIS XV CANED BEECHWOOD FAUTEUIL, Louis XV PAINTED WINDOW SEAT, PORCELAIN-MOUNTED ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
A GILT BRONZE HANGING LANTERN, the pentagonal body with five serpentine
glass panels surmounted by urns and swags of berried foliage, with five leaf-cast scroll
supports, 2ft. Hin. high (90cm.) 19th Century
A Louis XV ORMOLU CARTEL [...]
Tags: 19th century, apple green, ARMCHAIR, beechwood, bracket, bracket clock, bronze, BUREAU, cabinet, cabriole legs, CANED, CARTEL, CENTURY, chamfered corners, CONVEX, corner cupboards, FAUTEUIL, flaming torch, FRUITWOOD, furniture, GILT-BRONZE, GILTWOOD, glass, glass panels, HANGING, inlaid, kingwood, LANTERN, leaf cast, louis xv, MANTEL, mantel clock, ORMOLU, ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PAINTED, PARCEL-GILT, parquetry, PORCELAIN-MOUNTED, SECRETAIRE, Serpentine, SERPENTINE-FRONTED, swags, TABLE, two doors, VENETIAN, WHEEL, WINDOW, window seat
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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 [...]
Tags: 19th century, Abraham Roentgen, AMARANTH COMMODE, ARMCHAIR, ARMCHAIRS, bronze, BUREAU, cabriole, cabriole legs, CARTEL, CENTURY, CIRCULAR, commode louis xv, COMMODES, design, EBONY, enamel dial, flowerhead, FRONT, furniture, GEOR, GILTWOOD, GROTTO, Hans Huth, Jean-Joseph de Saint, KNIFE, louis xv, louis xvi, Mahogany, MANTEL, MARQUETRY, nicolay, ORMOLU, ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PAINTED, rocking chair, ROSEWOOD, ROSEWOOD-VENEERED, sabots, saddle shape, schloss rheinsberg, SECRETAIRE, SETTEE, SILVERED, TRANSITIONAL, tulipwood, walnut, WHEEL, xviiie siecle
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, BOOKCASE, bow, boxwood, CENTURY, chamfered, COMMODES, CONVEX, CORNER, corner cupboard, cupboard, Drawers, English, front doors, furniture, GAMES, GATELEG, George III, GOOD, kingwood, lap table, long cock, Mahogany, MARQUETRY, MARY WALNUT, olivewood, PAINTED, panel doors, PICTURE, Serpentine, standing, TABLE, TRAY, wall cupboard, WILLIAM, WOOD TEA, WRITING
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: 1880s, cupboards, dining furniture, dining rooms, drawer, English, furniture, George III, Mahogany, mahogany sideboard, Sideboards
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: Art Nouveau, arts and crafts, bronze, cupboards, decoration, Drawers, English, furniture, Mahogany, mahogany sideboard, side cabinets, sideboard, Sideboards
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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 [...]
Tags: Adam, Antique, brass candle holders, Contemporary, cupboards, design, dining room furniture, drawer, eighteenth century, English, furniture, George Smith, hepplewhite, Mahogany, mahogany veneers, pedestal, sideboard, Sideboards, Tables
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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 [...]
Tags: Antique, Baroque, Cabinets, cabriole, chests of drawers, Chippendale, day beds, Dutch, English, Feet, furniture, louis xv, Mahogany, Queen Anne, queen anne style, Regence, Renaissance, Rococo, Settees, sideboard, Sideboards, Style
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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, [...]
Tags: Antique, collection, empire style, English, english regency style, French, furniture, imperial style, Mahogany, oak, oak sideboards, Regency, sideboard, Sideboards, Style, Tables
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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 [...]
Tags: Adam Sideboards, Adam Style, Antique, Baroque, commode, English, French, french furniture, furniture, Mahogany, neo classical, Neoclassical, Renaissance, Rococo Sideboards, sideboard, Thomas Chippendale, Wooden
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