Archive for December, 2009

ANTIQUE FURNITURE BUYING AND SELLING

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE FURNITURE BUYING AND SELLING
COLLECTORS whose habit it is to look with suspicion on every dealer in old furniture with whom they may be tempted to do business would be better advised, on the whole, to transfer their misgivings from the tradesman to his wares.  Antique dealers are no more dishonest than any other class, [...]

ANTIQUE FURNITURE INTERIORS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE FURNITURE INTERIORS
From such an advertisement one may pretty clearly visualise the interior of the house, which would have been that of fairly well-to-do people.   But there is no evidence that the furniture was considered exceptional in any way, and apart from its age the same furniture now would not be much out of the [...]

ANTIQUE 18TH and 19TH CENTURY FURNITURE CABINET MAKERS AND ANTIQUE CABINET MAKERS AND FURNITURE BOOKS AND DRAWINGS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE 18TH CENTURY FURNITURE CABINET MAKERS AND ANTIQUE CABBET MAKERS AND FURNITURE BOOKS AND DRAWINGS
There are several references to painted furniture at Strawberry Hill which must, however, have met with the approval of the owner. In the inventory one reads of Welsh armed chairs, painted blue and white “… ” chairs, settees, and long stools [...]

HEPPELWHITE FURNITURE. HEPPELWHITE CHAIRS, TABLES, BOOK-SHELVES, CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, SIDEBOARD and BEDS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

HEPPELWHITE FURNITURE. HEPPELWHITE CHAIRS, TABLES, BOOK-SHELVES, CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, SIDEBOARD and BEDS
Line is the principal characteristic of later eighteenth-century furniture to which the name of Heppelwhite is given. The style suggests a pleasant compromise between the virility of Chippendale and the formal reticence of Sheraton. Heppelwhite furniture indicates no violent change. It would seem as though [...]

SHERATON FURNITURE. SHERATON CABINETS, TABLES, CHAIRS, BUFFETS, DRESSERS, CHESTS OF DRAWERS, BEDS, SOFAS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

SHERATON FURNITURE. SHERATON CABINETS, TABLES, CHAIRS, BUFFETS, DRESSERS, CHESTS OF DRAWERS, BEDS, SOFAS

THE reasons given in previous chapters for confining the   significance of  furniture-makers’ names to the styles in which they worked have even greater force when applied to Thomas Sheraton, the actual examples of whose work in existence are both doubtful and few in [...]

CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE. CHIPPENDALE TABLES, CHARS, BEDS, DRESSERS, CUPBOARDS, BEDS, SOFAS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE. CHIPPENDALE TABLES, CHARS, BEDS, DRESSERS, CUPBOARDS, BEDS, SOFAS
NO style of furniture is better known to the average collector than Chippendale, yet no style  has  suffered  more  from  general ignorance about it.   The name appears to have caught the imaginations of collectors, apart from the huge prices realised at auction for authentic work of [...]

ANTIQUE CHARLES II and JAMES II FURNTURE

Monday, December 14th, 2009

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHARLES II and JAMES II FURNTURE
Charles II. 1660-1685. James II., 1685-1689
After the grooved horizontally for bed cords reign of Queen Anne, Holland exercised a greater influence over English decorative arts than any other country, not excepting France. The salient features of the reproduction chippendale writing table history [...]

ANTIQUE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD FURNITURE

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD FURNITURE I702-I714
FURNITURE known to collectors under the antique art deco writing desk name of Queen Anne illustrates in the palissy gay day main, as far as construction goes, the antique movado pocket watch gold development of curvilinear forms in place of the 18th century bed legs traditional [...]

ANTIQUE WILLIAM AND MARY FURNITURE. 1689-1702

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE WILLIAM AND MARY FURNITURE. 1689-1702
PERHAPS the corner cupard oval top open shelves most important event at the lamp and value and applied flowers and antique close of the antique porters hall chair seventeenth Century to students of old English furniture was the plates made in chekoslovakia development of the viennf [...]

ANTIQUE CHARLES I FURNITURE

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE CHARLES I FURNITURE. 1625-1649
Indeed we have considerable difficulty in assigning even the antique round table with clawfeet and drawer period within a quarter of a Century. Had the typical knobs on mid victorian writing desks country shown a hundred years of industrial activity without civil war the claw foot style [...]