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BAROQUE BED

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SOLID BED WITH 2 NIGHT TABLES

Solid bed with 2 bedside tables
This beautiful bed is made of solid wood and was made by hand.
That certain something to give the bristle dartboard w/cabinet beautiful decorations all over the antique chifferobes bed.
King: 190 x 200
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ANTIQUE CRADLE. BABY CRIB SOLID WOOD, scandinavian glass wood coffee table BEECH (?)

Used but great condition.
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Mass:
about 70 cm / 90 cm / 56 cm wide (105 cm rocker
wide)
Mattress about 86 cm x 50 cm
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Dieter Cord Detmolder Path 216
32657 Lemgo
Germany Phone: 01725366008
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OLD BED from the british chair designs founding softwood RAR

Old bed from the antique accordions founding
Softwood Rar
Description is based on the 1920’s neo-classic sofa pictures. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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On behalf I offer:
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ANTIQUE ORIENTAL TEAPOT BUKHARA by 19 JH RARITY KG-05

Item No: Kg-05
Material: Brass
Weight: 640 grams
Height: 38 cm
Largest diameter: 15 cm
Largest Diameter of base: 11 cm
Condition: Good (Deckelschniere is broken on both sides small Baule)
Very rare and antique teapots Bukhara, antique bottle mirror perfume vanity brass, square cabinet knobs driven lid knob cast.

“IMPERIAL” Pompous, playhouse west walnut creek ca ITAL. BAROQUE BED PURE GLAMOR

“A sumptuous and opulent elegance”
for the collectibles antique most intimate room in the hardwood black walnut house …….. rediscovered for you …..
Made for a queen!
“Imperial”
opulent and elegant in the 1863 18ct gold pocket watch forms, leather top desks valuable and exclusive in execution.

ANTIQUE BABY CHERRY 19th Cent.

Crib restored antique
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Height approximately 71 cm, antique oak dining tables or approximately 93 X 53.3 cm
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Location is 88356 Ostrach / Southern Germany
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Offering age-old foundations of a baby here. The illustrated section is in a remarkably good condition considering the maghoney dinning tables age of about 50-60 years.

50ER YEARS GROPIUS BAUHAUS ERA BED FRAME 100 X 200 CM

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Designer double bed, toilet cabinet “library stool” commode 50 years
bauhaus design gropius
schoen design
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Kapellenweg 7
51580 Reichshof-sinspert
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the stated shipping costs are the napoleon candelabra lyre costs resulting from the antique majorelle actual sender. pieces of furniture may need to be sent as bulk goods.

“QUADRO” SENSATIONAL BED FROM ITALY …A DREAM …

A bed for the cabinet component stereo discerning aesthetes!
“Quadro”
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Rulers head shape has special optical properties, florida antiques as well as valuable. The revolving frame in gold leaf is also edged with crystal stripes. The inside head part and the antique kitchen clock side panels are covered with a high-quality white leather.

FARMERS COT BED HISTORIC OLD FARMER’S WARDROBE

Offering old peasant bed for sale!
The bed has a mattress 100 cm x 180 cm!
The wood frame is surrounded of pine, custom audio cabinets the gothic furniture for guys sides are covered with bed Buchennutleisten where the 1893 antique from pocket waltham watch bed load bolts are screwed.
According to the antique fishing rod red glass guides head of the antique white porcelain candlestick italy essay to the antique book buyer previous owner was about

BEAUTIFUL BED FROM CHINA 100 YEARS OLD 2X1 METER

Fine antiques direct
Product Description Art Bed 3
Processing: Solid
Age: 100 years
Origin: China
Dimensions: 2×1 m
Price: 2990, file cabinets used oakland county michigan –
19% Mw St.
Description:
Ordered - Delivery time approx 3-4 months!
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CHILDREN WEIGHING PINE - M & S ANTIQUE AHRENSBURG IN HAMBURG

Pine Cot
Sho Ner Condition
Max H: 75 cm - D: 58 cm - W: 100 cm
Use the wurttemberg porcelain mark Preview of POSSIBILITY!
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Saturday 10.00 - 14

MUSEALE PRAM / SPOKE WHEELS / Brennabor

Musealer Stroller / Spoke Wheels / Brennabor
Offerings will be a great and beautiful antique pram brand Brennabor. It has large wheels and suspension of iron. The stroller has a beautiful turned white-painted handle. The canopy is missing.

COLUMN - COT / BED / 200X200 / TO REVISE

With classical ornament and cassettes magical carving this landmark columns - bed is safe. Goldfarben the antique car show swap ornaments effectively cancel each out of walnut root. Each 2 bed columns include the art deco pool tile head and foot of the unfinished pantry cabinets bed and give a remarkable appearance.

Poster bed / BED / 1.80 X 2.00 M / NATURAL

Here we offer an impressive four-poster bed, 1935 bing dining tables which impresses with its exceptional design. Head and footboard are numerous decorations and carvings and framed by 2 each bed columns, antique portable typewriter which carry over to the belgian sideboard sky as the early 18th century english walnut side chairs upper end.

Ancient Greek and Roman Furniture

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Greece and Rome

In the furniture of ancient Greece we encounter for the first time in the history of civilization more than one individual ‘period’ of furniture styles. The earlier pieces of the sixth century BC, in the time of oligarchic rule, were rigid and square, and appear to be directly in line with styles set by Egypt and Assyria. Perpendicular backs, square or turned straight legs occasionally terminating in animal hooves, and even straight arm-rests characterize the chairs. The beds and couches remain high, although they seem more luxuriously upholstered or cushioned than before.
From the fifth century BBC the Greeks became more and more involved in wars with the Persian empire, which sought to dominate the Greek city states. They also began developing more democratic ideas of government. This struggle to maintain independence was accompanied by a great liberation of artistic genius, free from the influence of the Near East, which was embodied in architecture, sculpture, pottery and furniture.
The new Greek furniture represented a distinct breakaway
This relief of the 6th century BC illustrates the more rigid style of early Greek furniture
Greek klismos of the 5th century ac from a marble relief, now in the National Museum, Athens
from the rigidity of the past, and it was typified by graceful, flowing, curving lines which made the pieces relaxing in appearance and function. The most widely used articles were couches (now closer to the ground), tripod tables with animal legs, fixed and folding stools, and the klismos, or upright chair.
The klismos had a square seat on four sabre-shaped legs, and a curved back. The rear legs extended upwards on either side of the seat in the same arc to a cross member and then changed direction inwards to support a curved backboard. The four members of the seat were mortised into the legs, giving the legs a measure of elasticity which enabled the chair to be used comfortably on rough ground and which prevented it being tipped over backwards or forwards. The height of the backboard varied; if it was low the sitter could rest an arm on it. (This is well illustrated by a seated marble figure in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.) For more formal occasions the higher back variety was always available.
While our knowledge of Greek furniture is restricted to descriptions in literature and portrayal in sculpture, reliefs and pottery, many pieces of Roman furniture have survived, even though they are in marble, stone or bronze, or have bronze parts. A considerable quantity of pieces was found in the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which were excavated in the middle of the eighteenth century. It is clear that the marble and bronze pieces were modelled on earlier or con-
Stone relief of Roman basket-work armchair,
of about the 3rd century AD
temporary articles made of wood. The objects were seldon original in style, and were imitations of earlier Greek forms If anything, they were more relaxed in shape, like the couch of wood and bronze dating from the first century AD, or the stone relief of the basket-work chair of the third century AD which may well have been one of the few Roman inventions.
Roman carpenters and furniture-makers developed a higl standard of workmanship. They had at their disposal a variety of rare and attractive woods, such as satinwood citruswood, olivewood, oak and cedarwood, to mention but few. They excelled in inlay and veneer-work, using not only these woods which they had learned to colour by means o special dyes, but also ivory, ebony, gold and silver, and ever tortoiseshell.
Their wood-carving of chairs and table legs, arm-rests friezes, cornices, etc., was of the highest order of delicac3 and sophistication, and this skill was certainly equalled b3 the makers of bronze and stone furniture. But despite the quality, the variety was restricted to a small range of articles for the Roman taste in furniture was a simple one, confined largely to utilitarian pieces. The austerity of the Romar character of republican times was still evident in the heyday of the empire.
The couch, of course, was one of the principal pieces of furniture, for the Roman upper and middle classes, relieved of the burdens of work by a slave class, spent a great deal off their time at prolonged banquets, parties and discussions at which it was customary to recline on well-cushioned couches
Roman bronze couch dating from the 1st century ac to 1st century AD with wooden parts restored. It was found at Boscoreale

Ancient Persian Furniture

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Assyria and Persia
There are no surviving pieces of furniture from those two splendid Near-Eastern empires, Assyria and ancient Persia. All that is known of their furniture comes from such sculpture and stone reliefs as have been excavated in the past hundred years or so, many of which were found in the ruins of palaces of Assyrian and Persian kings. Most of the items depicted are associated with regal or religious ceremonial, military campaigning, or life at the court of an omnipotent ruler.
A typical Assyrian chair was high-backed, perpendicular and with the seat raised so high above the ground that a separate footstool was needed. This type of chair appears to have been made deliberately to emphasize the superiority of the sitter over other people in the same room, and was used by kings and high priests. Although the chair in the illustration has no animal feet, the square legs of many Assyrian chairs did end in lions’ paws, in the Egyptian manner. The bed, which differs from the Egyptian model in that it has a headpiece as
an integral part of the frame, is likewise raised high above the ground in a dominating position. One feature of Assyrian furniture not found in the Egyptian styles is the use of inverted cone-shaped blocks under the feet of chairs or beds.
The furniture of ancient Persia resembles in many respects the Assyrian forms, largely because the Persians took over the dominions of Assyria and Babylon and absorbed much of their art, culture and building techniques. In the ruins of the city of Persepolis, built by Darius the Great (c.520?c.486 BC), stone reliefs show the kind of furniture used by the royal family and its entourage. Again, the items are limited in variety, and thrones predominate. In the lower part of a Persian throne of this period, illustrated here, the animal paws are incorporated a little over half-way down the leg length. The turned legs with bulging contours appear to be a new, and not very attractive, feature of Persian design, but they mark the beginning of the technique of turning furniture members, a style that has continued ever since.
(right) Stone relief from the Assyrian palace of Sennacherib. of about 700 bc, showing a high throne-like chair, with a footstool Both have cone-shaped blocks at the ends of the feet
(far right) Stone relief from Persia, from the 6th century BC, depicting the lower part of a throne. Animal paws are incorporated in the centre of the leg sections

Ancient Egypt Furniture

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Egypt
The ancient Egyptians believed that when a pharaoh died his soul continued in a life after death. This was only possible if the pharaoh’s body was embalmed and placed in a tomb which was then hermetically sealed. The first such tombs were the pyramids, erected during the Old Kingdom dynasties (c.2800?c.2300 BC). Later on, pharaohs were embalmed and buried in huge graves hewn out of rocks.
As the body of the pharaoh was being preserved in order to facilitate his transference to the after-life, it was also considered important that he should take with him all those comforts he had enjoyed on earth. Thus arose the custom of surrounding the pharaoh’s body, which was sometimes put in a sarcophagus, with a variety of precious jewels, weapons, household utensils, food and other domestic paraphernalia. Among these were items of furniture ? not only those used by the pharaoh but also some pieces used by his family or attendants and it is due to the efficacy of ancient Egyptian tomb-sealing that today we can see many of these pieces in an excellent
(right) Upright chair of cedar-wood with gold mounts. This was found in the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamen and is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Some decorated strutwork is missing from between the seat and the stretchers
(far right) Box mounted on square legs. The framework is ebony and the lid is mounted on bronze hinges. From Tutankhamen’s tomb
state of preservation. Some of the wood and the leather upholstery appear to be in as good a condition as they were when entombed thousands of years ago.
These, and other surviving Egyptian items, are the oldest pieces of furniture in the world. They date, at the earliest, from about 1500 BC, that is, in the New Kingdom dynasties, shortly after the expulsion from Egypt of the Hyksos by Ahmose I. But from ivory carvings of the Old Kingdom it is clear that wooden furniture was being made at least eight hundred years earlier. What is more, the types of furniture and the manner in which they were made had hardly changed in all those years.
Throughout its long history Egyptian furniture appears tc have been simple in design and practical in use, although some pieces made especially for pharaohs were more refined,Folding stool of cedarwood, about 1500 Bc The inlay is ivory and the legs have ducks’ head ends. This stool is now in the British Museum, London
with elaborate ivory and ebony inlays. When in 1922 the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamen was discovered and opened up by the archaeologists the Earl of Caernarvon and Howard Carter, a variety of pieces of furniture was found in the antechamber. Some were heavily ornate, others were in a much simpler style. The chair shown here is far less elaborate than the more famous ecclesiastical throne which has, apart from ivory and ebony, overlays of gold, glass and semiprecious stones.
In Egypt there was always a shortage of strong indigenous woods, for palm-tree wood was far too unstable for solid stress-bearing furniture. The Egyptians therefore had to import cedarwood, sycamore and olivewood from the Lebanon and Cilicia. They also imported ebony and ivory from areas further south on the African continent.
Egyptian carpenters had at their disposal a variety of tools: saws with bronze blades, chisels, mallets, axes and sharp knives. Planes had not yet been invented and adzes were used for smoothing surfaces. They also developed many cabinet-making techniques which have persisted throughout the history of furniture. They knew the art of making strong
lasting glues. They made joints between members by mortise and tenon, and they developed skilful dovetailing. They made bronze hinges for chest or box lids, and they upholstered chairs, stools and beds with leather strapping, plant-fibre and cloth.
The main pieces of furniture made by the Egyptians were chairs (thrones and other styles), stools, beds, chests and caskets. The Egyptian chair usually had a square seat on carved wood animal legs, all four legs facing forwards, with a curved sloping back supported by perpendicular stretchers. The seat was made of plaited leather straps or rushes beaten into strong fibrous strips, nailed at the sides.
Another item which was introduced during the Middle Kingdom dynasties (c.2200?c.1800 BC) was the folding stool. The seat of this collapsible stool consisted of either a row of leather straps nailed or glued from rail to rail, or a piece of draped leather sewn into right angles at the corners, which was detachable. The legs often ended in carved ducks’ heads, inlaid with ivory. These stools were used domestically and also by army commanders in the field of battle.
The ancient Egyptians appear to have invented the bed, and several examples have survived, some of which are in very good condition. The one found in the tomb of the architect Cha at Thebes is typical. (Important people other than pharaohs were sometimes buried in great tombs, along with their worldly goods.) Like the chairs the legs of beds all face in the same direction. What appears to be the headboard, however, is in fact a footboard. The head rested either on pillows or on a special headrest of wood, which was a separate piece of furniture. The frame of the bed was filled with a network of leather or plant-fibre.
Egyptian bed, of the 16th century bc, found in the tomb of the architect, Cha, at Thebes. It is probably of cedar, painted white.