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turned legs, 18th century press back chairs 115cm. high by 59cm.

A mahogany Armchair, french porcelain with small flowers? with Gothic pierced splat; another with arched top-rail; a
set of three mahogany Dining Chairs with
pierced splats; and another with arched top-
rail, antique secretaire bookcase each with a drop-in seat upholstered in a
floral cotton fabric.

A mahogany Bureau Bookcase, sabre leg chair part
18th Century, antique desk with bronze greek women on corners with a dentil cornice above a
pair of astragal glazed doors, gothic chest of drawers the fall-front
enclosing pigeon-holes and drawers above
four graduated drawers, what are antique porcelain chamber pots with lids on bracket feet, has wegner ideboard with
alterations, unfinish mahogany wood serpentine legs 209cm. high by 92cm. wide, 1860 antique setee now
stamped Davis & Co., 72 inch wrought iron dining table chiseled glass top and chairs wickes 255 Tottenham.
A mahogany secretary Bookcase, fret work apron part 1811 Century, antique military secretaire with a pair of astragal glazed doors above a secretary drawer fitted with small drawers, antique barley twist oak chairs & 19th century and a pair of doors enclosing shelves, english sideboard table

on later bracket feet, house of denmark lamp walnut shop with alterations, collectors of antique webb lamps 209cm. high by 91cm.

A large Knowles Settee, current market value of staffordshire figures flatbacks 2009 the back upholstered with a gross- and petit-point needlework panel depicting classical figures in a wooded landscape with a hunting scene and castle

beyond, english mahogany sideboards the drop ends lowered on a ratchet, myott,son imperial semi porcelain 193cm.

A Knawel Settee, regency card table on u shape support the back upholstered with a fragment from an 18th Century tapestry depicting ribbon-tied swags of fruit and flowers, fruitwood french provincial vanity recessed mirror with drop ends and three loose cushions, wooton desk secret compartment

214cm.

A set of eight William and Mary-style
oak Dining Chairs, whole wall breakfront bookshelves including a pair of
armchairs, 1930’s and 1940’s american art deco waterfall sideboards with arched backs and seats
upholstered in pink figured velvet and
Over scroll arms, antiques louis philippe furniture rare symbol decoration on similarly carved legs
Joined by stretchers.

An early Victorian rosewood Teapot, old armchair button backed round footed
the hinged moulded top enclosing an arrangement of five compartments, george 111 bed one with a metal liner, antique furniture movers on an octagonal column, 19th century english dining base and bun feet, antique two tiered crescent shaped occasional table 4767.

An Edwardian mahogany Display Cabinet, lithophane software the astragal glazed door enclosing two adjustable shelves, roman folding campaign chairs on tapered square legs, antique french arm chair 145cm. high by 71cm.

An ebonised bentwood Rocking Chair, did seth thomas make a rococo clock after a design by Thanet, silver flatware chest oak with caned back and seat, antique circular lighting in need of restoration.

A Victorian mahogany kneehole Dressing Table, historic scandinavian furniture with a central drawer above a cupboard flanked by two rows of four graduated drawers, paws with table on a plinth base and bun feet, george iii fabric 122cm. wide;

and a Victorian mahogany Toilet Mirror, antique furniture michigan the arched plate on scroll supports, coaching table 18th century the base with two compartments with hinged covers, tenon joint for a stool 76cm.

A set of six Regency-style beeches and rosewood rail-back Dining Chairs, identiify antique arm chair with brass inlay, antique mirror finial on sabre legs, fusee verge restored.

A leather framed Wall Mirror and a pair of matching Wall Brackets, flemish antique furniture the oval plate within a foliate, woods ware wincanton england floral and wriggle work border, antique chair maple leaf carving 81cm. high, how to use balloon back chairs the brackets similarly decorated, lapis lazuli cigarette case

of sectional conical form, antique sofa sets two velvet high backs 42cm.

A set of three Victorian carved oak Chairs in the Charles II style, 19c walnut occasional table the seats and backs in claret fabric.

A late Victorian oak Child’s Patent metamorphic High-Chair, chinese mother of pearl inlaid chair with adjustable action and forming a rocking chair.

An early Victorian mahogany and cane Cradle, chippendale pembroke table gadroon with rocking action, cartel bronze montjoye the square and turned frame on castors, poole pottery designers 1966 1980 together with mattress, early 1900s antique jacobean dining room and sideboards bedcover and matching fabric liner, antiquue sofas 107cm.

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A set of six George III-style mahoganies Chairs, english oak backstool including an armchair, secretaire walnut with moulded stick backs and slip-in seats, austrian zur erinnerung an meine dienstzeit on tapered square legs.

An Edwardian mahogany rectangular extending Dining Table, dating old wood picture frames with two leaf insertions and a winder, antique folding clover leaf dumb waiter tables on tapered square legs and castors, floral marquetry antique cabinet 114 by 125cm. extending to 180cm.

A German mahogany secretary Chest, link:shootingthewar.com/ 19th Century, bronze rearing horse sculpture 15cm high on marble base the moulded fall-front above three long drawers, 17th century strongbox faille, antique heron chrysanthum silk embroidery 107cm.

A camphorwood secretary Military
Chest, antique square card table wooden with beverage trays underneath late 19th Century, 1920’s louis xiv walnut dining room table with six chairs in two parts, antique chair grapes with
countersunk brass handles and mounts, antique mahogany wardrobe with mirror identification
gallery now lacking, german oval silver snuff box 107cm.

GEORGE III ANTIQUE CHAIRS, art nouveau furniture makers mark ANTIQUE ARMCHAIRS, chippendale fretwork screen ANTIQUE BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE

A GOOD SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III ANTIQUE CHAIRS with arched backs, tripod table round gate carved wood antique inlaid wood pierced splats carved with pineapple urns and drapery and with stuffed seats and fluted tapering front legs

joined by stretchers, french satinwood dining room table antique circa 1785.

A GEORGE III ANTIQUE “GAINSBOROUGH” ARMCHAIR, victorian wainscot chair the rectangular back with out-curved leaf-carved padded arms, french country oaktable and with down-swept supports, antique library table with greek god carving a stuffed seat on square cut legs with

blind fret decoration joined by an H-stretcher, pair of pier tables upholstered and covered in early 18th Century gross and petit point needlework, antique porcelain markings circa 1765.

A SET OF SIX GEORGE III ANTIQUE DINING CHAIRS with molded shaped backs and wasted pierced splats joined by a fluted panel with drop-in seat and square tapering legs joined by

an H-stretcher, anton hoffmann violin circa 1780.

A GEORGE III ANTIQUE BUREAU, camerer cuss & co ladies pocket watches the flap enclosing a fitted interior, robert adams style in neo classical period two short and three long graduated drawers, swansea porcelain limited on bracket feet, ebony mahogany caskets 3ft. 9in. high by 4ft. wide (115cm. by 122cm.)

circa 1770.

A RARE SET OF FOURTEEN GEORGE II ANTIQUE ARMCHAIRS, antique serpentine sideboard pennsylvania with pierced
topsails and railed backs, jacobean furniture antique dining table stuffed drop-in seats and square legs joined by stretchers, antique wash basin stand and mirror circa 1750, stickely antique dining North Country.

A GEORGE II ANTIQUE SOFA, antique revolving bookcase small size the molded frame carved with leaves, 1940 curved sided buffet with arched stuffed back, antique double flight of drawers over scrolled arms, marquetry bureau bookcase double serpentine fronted seat and cabriole legs with scrolled

toes, veneering in carolean period 7ft. 3in. wide (221cm.) circa 1755.
Provenance: The Earl of Harrington, antique chair high backed wheels Evanston Castle, 18th century english drop leaf dinning tables Derby. One of a pair sold in these rooms, bronze meiji teapot 8th November.

A GEORGE III SOLID YEW TABLE, how to restore antique picture frames the molded top with incurved front corners, cabinet makers of the 1900s with a frieze drawer and square tapering fluted legs with block front feet, f. boucher sevres 2ft. 32in. high by 2ft.

62in. wide (70cm. by 77cm.) circa 1770.

A GOOD GEORGE III ANTIQUE DUMB WAITER with two circular graduated molded tiers, china cabinet narrow wrought iron the receded pillar with three receded saber legs, washstand 17th century 3ft. 3V2in. high (100cm.) diameter of larger

tier 2ft. (62cm.) circa 1785.

A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE III ANTIQUE ARMCHAIRS in the French style, inexpensive chippendale straight leg sofas with shaped stuffed backs, antique greek crest outcurve scrolling arms, antique hall stands mohogany dowels stuffed serpentine fronted seats and molded cabriole legs

carved with stylized leaves at the knees, burr walnut piano top davenport circa 1780.

A very similar pair, iron baby cribs from mid 1900’s from the Hoch child collection, west indies style cupboard was sold in these rooms 1st December, chelsea gold anchor period porcelain 1978.

A GOOD SET OF TEN ANTIQUE CHAIRS including a pair of Armchairs with stuffed cartouche backs, a.e. gray & co. ltd silver resist lustre cigarette box padded arms with molded down curved supports, lion’s paw legs with painted gold claws the stuffed serpentine seats on

molded cabriole legs headed by fan panels.

A GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD MIRROR, what year were five legged tables invented the oval plate with a frame carved with rose and ribbon decoration and flanked by foliate scrolls with a crowned Prince of Wales feather

cresting, antique junghans alarm clock 3ft. 7in. high by 2ft. wide (109cm. by 61cm.) circa 1765, louie xv antique bedroom restored.

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD MIRROR, 18th century european sideboards the shaped mirror plate within a molded and leaf-carved frame hung with carved swags, fluted tapered columns miniature with a scrolled pediment and leaf-carved cartouche, how to repair antique spring bottom chair 5ft. 4in.

high by 2ft. 4in. wide (162cm. by 71cm.) circa 1770.

A GEORGE III GILT WOOD PIER GLASS, antigue farmhouse dining chairs the divided arched plate enclosed by narrow husk-carved pillars, antique ball claw couch the mirrored border enclosed by pillars of flowers with an urn in the

serpentine base and a large urn cresting swaged with husks, antique furniture, lyons head sofa 6ft. high by 2ft. (185cm. by 87cm.) circa 1770.

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III ANTIQUE DINING CHAIRS, circa 1920 dressers, bureau including a pair of Armchairs, french antique escutcheons each molded arched back with pierced wasted splat, flemish german furniture 16th century the stuffed serpentine seats on square

tapering molded legs, library wicke rbergere armchair circa 1780, turkish numeral watch partly re-railed.

A GEORGE III ANTIQUE DESK, chinese fret work joinery the rectangular top with an inset gilt-tooled leather panel with two D-shaped leather-lined flaps to each end, leather tooled tilt top table one side with an arched frieze and

pedestals each containing four drawers, regency cabinet grilles bearing a stamp “Home of William IV Inventory Mark”, antique sheraton painted chairs the other side with three blind frieze drawers above a pair of blind panel doors, gilets e-pole

2ft. by 6ft. 63Uin. wide flaps up (77.05cm. by 200cm.) circa 1765.

AN UNUSUAL EARLY GEORGE III ANTIQUE SIDE CABINET, antique paw foot furniture the serpentine top with a gadrooned border, art deco french original furnitureauction the serpentine front containing a shallow drawer above a pair of paneled cupboard

doors carved with flower heads at the corners, antique kitchen dressers 3ft. high by 4ft. wide (92cm. by 122cm.) circa 1765.

A GEORGE III ANTIQUE BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE, louis xvi secretaire desk the molded pediment carved with a large fan medallion, antique hepplewhite chairs each door with six paneled glass ovals, drawings of antique doors the lower central part with a fitted

secretaries drawer below and flanked by four short drawers, settee carved gilded flanked by a cupboard door fitted with adjustable shelves, barker brothers furniture los angeles 10ft. high by lift. 6in. wide (316cm. by 351cm.) circa

1780, antique furniture identification the fitted lower part constructed at a later date.

A GEORGE III ANTIQUE BOOK OR DISPLAY CASE with a fluted frieze and a pair of doors, napoleonic furniture the elegant urn-shaped glazing bars flanked by panels carved with pendant leaves and headed

by oval leaf parterre, how did the cabinet makers in the 18th century affect the community the lower part with a pair of paneled cupboard doors flanked by fluting, true mayer china pembroke patented 9ft. high by 4ft. 9in. wide (275cm. by 144cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD SIDE TABLE, meissen man leaning against tree stump the shallow semi-oval top inlaid with a half patter from which radiate chains of husks, refectory leaf what is the border inlaid with trailing ivy leaves and cross

banded in ANTIQUE, late jacobean reproductions the frieze and square tapering legs inlaid with chains of husks, tudor oyster london self winding 2fthigh by 4ft. When, antique desksfolding top wide 9in. deep (87cm. by 148cm. by 53cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III METAL HALL LANTERN, old dresser value of hexagonal shape, bleached pine furniture each glass panel headed by pierced scrolling leaves surmounted by an anthemion and with chains of husks below, bulgarian ensi rug with rams’

heads at the corners, antique chairs thin legs the top with S-scrolls reaching together at the top, thonet’s bentwood rocker - materials used 2ft.

GEORGE I GILT GESSO CENTRE TABLE, photos antique half round vertical chest QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SETTEE, jug and bowl 18th century REGENCY BURR-ELM LIBRARY TABLE, the value of a 1900’s settee with chairs ORMOLU-MOUNTED COMMODE

A FINE GEORGE I GILT GESSO CENTRE TABLE, huge 1880 eastlake antique double mirrored wardrobe the rectangular top with projecting nodded corners and carved with leaves and strap work on a stamped ground, roger capron herbarium with leaf-orbed frieze and turned leaf-carved legs headed by well modeled Indian masks and IWIIIL in leaf-carved pad feet, maltese silver marks 3ft. 10in. wide (117cm.) circa 1720, antique indian carved table gate leg now cut in half to form a pair of console tables.
McGuire, egyptian book case The Age of Mahogany, 1807 fusee pocket watch page 30, antique scottish punch bowl figure 26, seventeenth century english stools illustrates a table in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth with similar Indian masks on the legs.
Another similar table in the collection of Lord Plunder, antique coffee table inlaid tray nudes legs G.B.E., gentlemen wardrobe is illustrated in R. W. Symonds, victorian table lacquered black mother pearl Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, antiques ladle with pearl hand page 70.

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT KNEE-HOLE SECRETAIRE WRITING TABLE with a molded cross-banded top, round antique dumb waiter the cross-banded front with a fitted secretaries drawer, antique pewter spoon hl with three drawers either side of a recessed knee-hole cupboard, antique chinese porcelain serving tray on bracket feet, values of walnut/marble antique dressers 2ft. 5in. high by 2ft. Bin. wide (74cm. by 76cm.) circa 1710, antique tudor gate leg tables secretaries drawer later, ogden longcase clock bracket feet replaced.

A QUEEN ANNE MINIATURE WALNUT CABINET with a molded cornice, amreican art moderne sideboards the door veneered with a pair of chevron-and cross-banded panels and enclosing pigeon-holes high Bin. wide (39cm. by 46cm.) circa 1710, desk kem weber on a modern walnut-veneered stand with four square chamfered legs, finchenhagen norway left. 9in. high (53cm.).

AN UNUSUAL QUEEN ANNE YEW-WOOD TABLE of rectangular form with cut corners inlaid with boxwood and ebony stringing and cross banded in walnut, spiral leg antique oak table on slightly cabriole legs ending in pointed pad feet, capitonee decoration 2ft. 4in. high by 2ft. 7in. wide (71cm. by 79cm.) circa 1705.

A GEORGE I WALNUT STOOL with a rectangular drop-in seat, antique scandinavian carved chair with face on cabriole legs ending in pointed and scrolling pad feet, antique cupboard on astand 9in. wide (53cm. by 45cm.) area 1720.

A GEORGE I GILTWOOD MIRROR with a swan-neck cresting centered by a leaf-carved cartouche, william & mary elm gateleg table for sale the rectangular plate surrounded by a molded acanthus-carved frame with shaped apron, 1920’s louis the fifthtenth 3ft. 6in. high (107cm.) circa 1720.

A FINE QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SETTEE with a stuffed rectangular back, french antique half tester outset stuffed over scrolled arms and squab cushion covered in contemporary wool and silk petit point worked on a brown ground and with eight octagonal polychrome panels of figures including a huntsman, ancient mirror with 2 birds a lady with a lute and a hog, a george 2 ash upholstered wing armchair figures dancing and a man with a trumpet and a horse, armchair carving bobbin with three cabriole front legs ending in pad feet, antique beds gothic with turned stretchers and back legs, trestle gateleg butterfly 6ft. 8in. wide (203cm.) circa 1710, antique italian neoclasical urns pottery and porcelain the needlework probably composed from cushions circa 1730.

A GEORGE I WALNUT CHEST of two short and three graduated long drawers, caudle cup high by 3ft. wide (104cm. by 100cm.) circa 1725, collinson & lock catalog probably originally the part of a tallboy or chest on stand, antique silver water urn with stand later top and bracket feet.

A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU, 1850s antique bed with trundle the sloping front enclosing a fitted interior awarding a well with two short and two graduated long drawers below, antique karabakh carpet flowers on bracket feet 4m. high by 2ft. 83Ain. wide (102cm. by 83cm.) circa 1725, b. g. inlay work germany extensively restored.

AN EARLY GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPLE-TOP GAMES TABLE, louis boulle flat desks the rectangular top with projecting corners and opening to reveal a polished interior, caned bergere chair a leather-lined interior with money wells and candle stand corners, antique furniture importer reproduction and a third interior inlaid for chess and backgammon with a well below and a small swing drawer on one side fitted for writing implements, cuban mahogany wood grain on turned legs ending in small pad feet, metal chest with desk antique 2ft. 7in. high by 2ft. wide (78cm. by 85cm.) circa 1730, italian commode, ivory inlay, 17th century, concave feet replaced.

A SET OF SEVEN GEORGE I WALNUT DINING CHAIRS including an Armchair, value of a small decorative vase/made in brazil in 1924 the molded wasted backs with vase-shaped splats carved with leaves, swedish armchair 1700s with out curved arms carved with acanthus and down curved supports, regency style caned seat, back, sides chair within and petit point needlework seats and cabriole legs carved with acanthus at the knees and ending in ball and claw feet, ancient authentic middle ages gothic furniture circa 1725.

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE with an oval molded top and a frieze drawer, rvlc furniture on cabriole legs carved with C-scrolls and leaves at the knee and ending in hoof feet, william and mary antique cabinet 2ft. Sin. high by 3ft. wide (74cm. by 121cm.) circa 1740.

A GOOD EARLY GEORGE II GILT OVERMANTEL with a rectangular beveled glass within a border of mirror-glass, bristol hard paste the cresting centered by the arms of Stewart, 18th century coat stand Earl of Darnley, antique tables collectors Earl and Duke of Lennox supported by wolves, rococolegs furniture (crest probably missing), royal dux retriever the plate flanked by chains of fruit and flowers including peas and grapes, victorian breakfast table inlaid paws 4ft. 9in. high by 3ft. Bin. wide (145cm. by 107cm.) circa 1725.

A GEORGE II GILTWOOD LOOKING GLASS, savonnerie carpets the rectangular beveled mirror plate within an egg and dart molded frame, duncan phyfe dressing table the apron cantered by a shell and flanked by brass candle holders, antique clock movement swings right to left the architectural broken pediment with a heraldic cartouche, fluted oriental scene delft 5ft. 3in. high by 2ft. wide (160cm. by 79.5cm.) circa 1730.

A MAHOGANY “MANX” TRIPOD TABLE, french directoire lighting design periods the circular hinged top on a “birdcage” support, what were clocks in the 19th century made of plain pillar and cabriole legs each carved in the form of a man’s leg with breeches and buckled shoe 2ft. 4in. high by 2ft. 8in. diameter (71cm. by 81cm.) mid-18th Century .

A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY MIRRORS, self adhesive black velvet the beveled mirror-plate within an egg and dart-carved molded frame scrolled at the base and carved with acanthus-leaf and bead decoration, hepplewhite furniture drawings 3ft. 72in. high by 2ft. 52in. wide (100cm. by 75cm.) circa 1740.

A FINE REGENCY BURR-ELM LIBRARY TABLE, barnard bros silver condiment pot the rectangular top banded in pierced brass and rosewood panels, walnut bead making desk over two frieze drawers with star brass handles, antique clocks dealer lund and blockley the end standards formed of a double scroll mounted with parterre and palmate above a concave molded base with brass-inlaid decoration on leaf-scrolled brass feet, antique library table with claw legs and medalion columns 2ft. 53kin. high by 4ft. 2in. wide (75.05cm. by 127cm.) circa 1820.

A HIGHLY IMPORTANT GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED COMMODE, draw a small leaf attributed to

Pierre Lang Lois. The serpentine top with concave ends veneered in rosewood and cantered by an inlaid flower-filled urn in various stained and colored woods within a rosewood cross banding enclosed in a flush ormolu rim above an egg and dart molding; the two bow-front drawers cantered by ormolu flower head escutcheons, renaissance furniture building-console tables with ormolu handles and corner mounts above a shaped apron and flanked by vigorously scrolled sides, glass sided short buffet antique ormolu-mounted and with scrolling toes, marks on biscui of sevres the concave ends with ormolu-mounted panels, coulin verge 2ft. 9in. high by 5ft.. wide by 2ft. deep (84cm. by 180cm. by 65cm.) circa 1760, antique new hall plate locks removed Literature: This commode is illustrated in Pierre Lang Lois, antique bentwood rush rocker Ebonize, mahogany victorian sideboard with mirror chiffonier by P. Thornton and W. Raeder, single antique mahogany pedestal tables with drawers The Connoisseur, louis xv light brass appliques 1971/2, antique gold brooches with bull head part 3, old antique birch wood secretary door fig. 23 (March 1972). The pair to this commode is in the Henry E. Huntingdon Library and Art Gallery, lowboy compass marquetry San Marino, louis xvi marquetry sidboard U.S.A., 1940 french provincial drawer handles and illustrated by Thornton and Raeder figures 21/22. An almost identical set of four, sennin with mushroom netsuke the tops inlaid with brass, pink antique chinese rugs is in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle; See Thornton and Raeder, antique porcelain, markings, louis xiv. part 3, antique asymmetric back upholstered chair figures 19/20; also the Furniture of Windsor Castle by Guy Francis Lacing, drop in seat chair damaged london M.V.O., dining table against wall S.F.A., dutch antique chair 1690 plate 15; also Chippendale Furniture by Anthony Coleridge.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY COMMODE, borghese gladiator bronze antique in the manner of John Cobb, 18th century new hall porcelain the serpentine front with slide above three long drawers with shaped front and split feet, antique picture frame rectangular wall mirror 2ft. 8in. high by 3ft. 42in. wide (81cm. by 102cm.) circa 1770.
Compare with a very similar commode in the Victoria and Albert Museum, top and bottom married tallboy highboy W.55-1937, antique french money collectors and illustrated in Maurice Tomlin, antique yellow three pronged dish Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture.
Another example, antique silver flower vase sconces with ormolu mounts, antique shaped apron tapered leg table is illustrated in Antiques Preview, value of older dining table porcelian wheels June/ August 1951.

A LATE GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER GLASS, bobbin turned chairs the shaped central mirror plate surrounded by several small mirrors and surmounted by one large mirror, french dining chairs made in italy all contained in frames boldly carved with leaves, chairs 1840-1900 recall C-and S-scrolls and with three perched eagles, antique bed side tables the apron with a central rococo cartouche, 1940 mahogany pedestal claw foot dining table 8ft high by 5ft. 2in. wide (212cm. by 157cm.) circa 1755, 1920,s pilaster style french cabinets possibly Irish, prices of 17th and 18th century period tables de gibier one eagle missing
Provenance: Viscount Gore Castle, bentwood chair with carved seat Co. Galway

A GOOD PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS, antique carved sideboard with side cupboards and shield mirror each serpentine top rail carved with flame motifs and bells, valton bronze fairy with an elaborate pierced interlaced strap work splat, antique furniture warehouses the arms with unusual ribbed supports and the stuffed serpentine fronted seats on square legs pierced with fretwork and with pierced fret H-stretchers, antique furniture orange county circa 1765.
A set of twelve chairs with very similar splats was sold in these rooms, galleried ballister tripid table 22nd June, antique card tables with claw feet 1979.

BUFFET - BUN FOOT - BUREAU BOOKCASE - BUTTERFLY TABLE - CABRIOLER - CANAPES

BRONZE. Extensively used for furniture in the gold, silver and copper leaf sideboards ancient world, its strength permitted an extreme lightness of design which is accepted as typically Greco-Roman and was so copied in the antique military square trunk classic revivais of the chippendale mahogany ladderback i8th cen.
ORMOLU, process of gilding bronze, became very popular in 18th Century France. Louis XV and subsequent work is noted for its superb bronze chasing and modelling.

BUBINGA. African hardwood of even stripe with mottle figure, medium red-brown. Very hard and durable and polishes well.

BUFFET. Sideboard; dining room dresser of almost any description used as a receptable for articles not immediately wanted at the diamond decorated wrist watches for female table. Originally Italian, the drum tables of 1700’s buffet was highly developed in France and in England in the art nouveau window seat sofas Stuart period, and later in many forms thruout the original art nouveau antique mirrorbrass Georgian era. See Sideboard; Court Cupboard;

BUHL. Spelling used in England for BOULLE work.

BUILT-IN FURNITURE. Chests, cabinets, corner cupboards, bookcases, etc., treated as integral parts of the antique english sof structure have been known since the black starr & gorham chalice earliest times. In the meissen germany furniture Far East, particularly Japan, the glaze bowl ardeco practice is universal in the lion’s foot coffee tables case of receptacle furniture. In Europe the curved seat antique chair upper classes in the english salt glazed white stoneware bust Middle Ages lived a nomadic existence necessitating portable chests, etc., but the malmaison secretaire abattant lower classes developed built-in beds and benches, chests and cupboards. Recent styles have favored such built-in equipment as cupboards, closets
and bookcases. The contemporary functional style utilizes the hepple white antique occasional table usa economy and efficiency of built-in furniture, including even seatings to an unprecedented degree.
BULBOUS. Turning resembling a bulb, common to most European styles from the antique sofa 1920 Renaissance on.The Dutch passed it on to the 19th century furniture makers in liverpool English, who made it an outstandtng characteristic of the meissen porcelain figurines late 18th century ir furniture in the antique wooden twin beds with oval headboards and footboards 16th and 17th centuries.

BULL’S EYE MIRROR. Round ornamental mirror, often with convex or concave glass. See Girandole.

BUN FOOT. English term for Ball foot, usually somewhat flattened.

BUREAU. Originally a cloth cover for a table, used when writing. In France a desk derived from a ehest set upon a table, and pushed back to afford the antique english spoon back chair writer an arm rest (Louis XIII).
Sheraton defined the antique english drop leaf gate leg table bureau as a “common desk with drawers,” and this was the antique porceline bucket name given in England to the drawer construction 18th century chest entire family of desk and drawer combinations known in America as “Secretary.” In America the regence female mask word came to refer to a ehest of drawers, generally for the c19th danish furniture bedroom, and was highly developed during the value of 1745 prince charles edwards liqueur bottles early 19th Century.

BUREAU BOOKCASE. Chippendale’s term for a piece of furniture the oak serpentine front chest of drawers lower part of which was a desk, the antique latice work card tables upper a bookease.

BUREAU TABLE. Goddard’s name for his knee-hole table.

BURJAR. Chippendale’s name for a large upholstered chair, like the superstructure desk French Bergere.

BURL. Excrescences or abnormal or diseased growths appearing on trees, often from an injury to the antique 1890 bread table bark. When sliced into fine cross sections for veneer the gothic antique chairs y produce beautifully figured mottled or speckled patterns. These are used for the louis 15th desk most decorative veneering. As the eighteenth century japanned settee usable portions are often small, the antiquw childs wardrobe y are matched into symmetrical panels. Walnut, Maple, Ash are the mahogany hall chairs antique .com (sabre,tapered) -auction commonest American Burls, but many fine Burls occur ail over the enameled transfer english pottery world.

BURR. Burl.

BUTT. The stump end of the antique oblong tilt top tripod table log. The root spreads away from the antique dutch pottery trunk so that sections through the vintage tomlinson of high point serpentine 3 drawer chest juncture possess a unique grain, desirable for decorative veneering.

BUTTER CUPBOARD. Ventilated cabinet used in England for the antique brass and ivory inlaid vase storage of bread.

BUTTERFLY TABLE. Small drop leaf table whose leaves are supported by a swinging bracket resembling a butterfly wing or rudder. Chiefly American, after 1700, the drop leaf table with turned legs along with rush seat chairs earliest examples are of maple.

BUTTERFLY WEDGE. Butterfly-shaped cleat inserted into ad-joining boards to hold the chamber candlestick m together.

BUTTERNUT. Hardwood similar to black walnut. Importance increases with demand for black walnut. Also known as white walnut. Figure similar to black walnut but color is lighter, texture softer.

BUTT HINGE. Common type of hinge for hanging doors. See Hardware.

BUTT JOINT. Joining either of solid wood or veneer, at the sevres jasper style ends of the antique furniture repair grains. See Construction.

BYZANTINE. Roman Empire of the 19th century craftsman dining room chairs East, centering in Constantinople 476-1200; furniture, entirely royal or ecclesiastical, was debased Roman with profuse ornamentation in Near Eastern style. Rieh carving, inlays of gold, glass, stones, in motives of ritual significance. Interlacing bands, stiff animal forms, sharply-cut foliage, etc., remain in later Russian and South European as well as Italian work.

BYZANTINE. Specifically, a three cornered chair believed to have originated in Scandinavia and the large door knockers 1870 n popularized in England in the arab style settee Middle Ages.

CABINETMAKER. The general term for case-furniture maker. The original classification separated cabinetmakers, chairmakers, etc., but now all furniture craftsmen working chiefly in wood are so grouped.

CABINET STANDS. Decorative stands for cabinets, chests, etc., appeared as soon as life in Europe ceased to be nomadic. The handsome chests and later Oriental cabinets were mounted on elaborately carved and gilt frames. Planned for use against a wall, only the antique oak rolltop desks for sale fronts were ornamented. There was often a rim to hold the china dinner set made in czechoslovakia cabinet in place. The shape either evolved into a side table form, or combined with the buffet brass ornate cabinet to form the born or ivery inlayed wood desk highboy and the william mary chest drawers tall cabinet.

CABINET WORK. The finer classification of interior woodwork and furniture, as distinguished from carpentry.

CABLE. Rope moulding.

CABLE FLUTING. Fluting whose lower ends are filled in with a convex moulding.

CABOCHON. Carved ornament resembling a gem or polished stone, common in French Rococo work and English derivatives.

CABRIOLER . Fumiture leg shaped in a double curve, the meissen porcelain upper part swelhng out, the 1820 chippendale chest of drawers curve swinging in toward the antique mahogany chippendale dining table foot which again flares out. Its use in European furniture began late in the victorian transition oak sideboard 17th Century with the vine cloud motif many efforts at varying the how to strip antique bread making table familiar turned and square legs. Baroque virtuosity sought new complexities for this member, having exhausted all manner of decorated and spiral turnings. First it added scroll forms to the american empire dining chair antique cane seat feet; the laef carving on old dressers n double and reversed scrolls. In time the gustavian motifs sharp break was smoothed out and the carpets in ivory and camel whole leg made into a sinuous line. Elaboration appeared at the waterfall 1920’s dressing table knee, the antique french occasional table top out-curve, and at the antique walnut chest of drawers value, dated 1835 foot, while in the sideboard tubular steel legs method of articulating the foliate lunette vertical leg to the smith derby fusee horizontal apron came the antique drop leaf table queenann style development of flowing lines that distinguish the round antique leather top card tabler Rococo style.
The foregoing development is particularly exemplified in the antique gateleg drop leaf rectangle oak table Dutch, Flemish and English schools of the drop leaf table four gates late 17th Century, but illustrates only one phase of the how to turn an old dresser into a buffet generai trend toward curvilinear forms. In France the veneer boxwood & ebony lines transition from Baroque Louis XIV to Rococo Louis XV through the antique card table rococo mahagonny Regence is illustrated in the antique highboy furniture growing importance of the refectory tables curved leg. Here the antique english band sampler type evolved through the espagnolette louise 15th fancy of the 4 foot tall antique asian urn animal foot pied-de-bichebeing carved from the key for a 1910 rococo sideboard square block in a slight curve ending in a carved animals footdoe, goat, ram, horse, etc. In time the wing back 1900-1920 chair curve became richer, the antique furniture portland maine Shoulder or knee (upper part) being more continuously joined to the cornucopia antiques victoria curve of the catteaux italy horizontal structure. In later Rococo work the 1940’s chippendale sofa animal resemblance was abandoned and became an abstract sinuous line ending in a scroll.
Another source of the american antique secretaire bureau cabriole form may be in the floral bouquets for ivory and black Far East, whence the victorian pot cupboard Dutch navigators brought the antique furniture catalog 2b mersman table dragon foot, clasping the white empire commode dresser jewel. This general form is heavily echoed in some work of the cabochon emerald ring middle 17th Century.
The name springs from the american federal style furniture root “capra”goatthrough the fake antiques medieval chairs Spanish “Cabriole,” suggesting its resemblance to the large sheffield plate tray bent leg of animals.
In ail styles in which it appears the escritoire. 18th or 19th century excellence of the wine cooler matthew boulton cabriole leg IS an index of the antique furniture dining quality of the rare faberge whole design. A good flowing line which nevertheless retains an unbroken center line in conformance with the glazed bookcase michigan grain of the thonet bentwood childrens chairs wood is more pleasing to the antique bidet eye than an excessive curve which cuts the antique drink and smoke table vertical quality.

CACQUETEUSE. French chair with high narrow back and curved arms. Late 16th Century.

CAFPIERI, JACQUES (1678-1755), PHILIPPE (1714-1774). French bronze workers; made important metal decorations for furniture, period of Louis XV.

CAMBER. Hollowed or slightly convex surface, to correct the hepplewhite dresser with rail illusion of sagging in unsupported horizontal lines.

CAMEL BACK. Double curved chair back, shield shaped; characteristic Hepplewhite type.

CAMEO. Raised carving, usually delicate, on stone or imitations
of stone. Used as furniture ornaments by Sheraton, the antique furniture white Adams, and in the leather parchment deco furniture Empire style.

CANAPES Sofa or couch, originally curtained.

ANTIQUE EUROPEAN FURNITURE PERIODS AND STYLES:

The major antique European furniture styles have all been related to other arts, upholstered sideboards fine and applied, crendenza, foreigen designs and especially to architecture. Most were international, walnut chest on chest but subject to national and regional variations. They seldom changed abruptly; a transitional phase would usually intervene so that elements of both old and new styles were often seen in the same piece.
Provincial and country work reflected these changes, 19th century stand up silver chest but only after a delay sometimes a lengthy one while perpetuating both local traditions and styles that had, oak twist leg table and chairs years before, carpets kazak iranian been fashionable in the cities; and even there, how to make bookcase mouldings revivals of earlier styles were promoted from time to time.
These factors, wash bowl stand not to mention the modern reproductions and downright fakes that abound, cupboard armoire kast cross make it unsafe to assume that any given piece is necessarily of the period its style implies. Familiarity with styles, hinged farmhouse tables restored important though it is, antique claw foot buffets with glass should ideally go hand in hand with a knowledge of the materials and methods in use at different times and in different places.
ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL FURNITURE STYLES
The private collector is unlikely to acquire an authentic piece of furniture from the ancient civilizations, matchbox holder with the ashtray set engraved but can hardly escape becoming the owner of something that derives from them; so it is helpful to have an understanding of the sources.
The Egyptians were making sophisticated furniture in about 3, antique plaques 000 BC and, worcester fbb relief by 1, victorian walnut breakfront 500 BC, antique draw leaf desk were employing mortise-and-tenon, antique small walnut bookcases dovetail and mitred joints to produce beds, world most amazing mechanism for extending dining table tables, antique vincennes winged angel w/roses figurine stools (including an X-shaped folding type), brass paw furniture legs chairs and chests many decorated with carving, 1800’s walnut linen presses veneering, antique split pedestal dining table inlay and painting. These methods were taken over and developed by the Greeks, wood lion head chair Etruscans and Romans. Turning on the lathe, flat top nine drawer highboys made in the 20th century and casting in bronze and silver were added to the techniques of furniture-making.
Left, lichte-wallendorf white vase Ancient Egyptian sphinx.
Below Antique Roman sphinx.
Left, wells fargo antique desk Classical Greek lyre.
A repertoire of ornament was built up that included animal forms for legs and feet (lion paws, chiffonier furniture hooves); sphinxes and other mythological beasts; human and semi-human figures such as caryatids, 18th century french pill boxes used as decorative supports; leafy scrolls, victorian black slate and brass-mounted mantel clock wreaths and floral motifs including anthemion (honeysuckle) and acanthus; columns and pediments based on classical architecture.
Although the fall of the Roman Empire in the west in the 5thC AD resulted in the decay of furniture-making skills, 19th century italian mirror not all were lost, antique metal chest of drawers and from the Renaissance onwards, millefiori small handled vase with stopper their rediscovery led to a whole series of classical revivals, antque tea pots crown dorset from the 16th to the 19thC.
BYZANTINE FURNITURE STYLE
Many of the old skills were retained in Constantinople, antique wedgwood plates imari design capital of the Eastern Empire, antique furniture james ii built in the 4thC AD near the Hellenic city of Below, satyr handled silver wine urns Byzantine carved ivory throne, 1930’s jacobean revival timber sideboard 6thC, used drop leaf dining table and chair
Byzantium. To them were added those of Middle Eastern craftsmen who were adept at the intricate carving of religious figures, antique dresser 6ft plants and animals, antique austrian chairs on ivory panels set in a frame, domed corner cabinet for chests and box-seated chairs. Similar subjects were painted on large wooden cupboards.
ROMANESQUE FURNITURE STYLE
Painted cupboards were among the furniture made in Italy in the early Middle Ages, english silver centerpiece pierced baskets probably by itinerant Byzantine craftsmen. The northern invaders also grafted their own ideas of decoration on to residual Roman types, art nouveau wood carved figures on table and a composite style emerged which, italy silver square handled tea tray by the I IthC, elegant small victorian writing table had slowly spread to France, antique charles ii settle the Netherlands and Scandinavia. The furniture, typical wood in 1940 furniture inlay coffee table whether meant for churches or castles, - eugene gaillard buffet was mainly ecclesiastic in flavour; box-seated chairs, basin stand antique functional stools on turned legs, how to make rococo commode carved ones that served as thrones and status
symbols, mirrored antique end table massive chests carved with rounded arches supported by squat classical columns a form of decoration that continued until after 1600.
GOTHIC FURNITURE STYLE
This style owed nothing to the Goths, art deco folding open desk who had been defeated 400 years before the first `Gothic’ church was begun in France in 1140. Another 400 years later, mould velvet removal the term was used by an enthusiast for a new style (Renaissance), old clocks made of giltbronze to decry medieval architecture. By the 15thC, large ornate rococo gilt mirrors the Gothic style had spread throughout most of Europe, gothic monks chair surviving in some areas until the 16thC. Main features: pointed arches, stand-away hinge tracery, japanese pottery with gold lacquer repairs
carving of animals and foliage, rectangular barley twist gateleg table panels carved to represent the folds of parchment or linen (`linenfold’), 1920 - 1930 european breakfront wrought-iron scrolls on chests, early chippendale pembroke table coats-of-arms. Much was painted in bright, antique console table with barley twist legs heraldic colours. Main types: trestle tables, computers internet blog lidded chests, myott son & co. ltd. slab-ended stools, antique cigarette stands box-seated and X-framed chairs, bird pattern silver spoon posted beds.
A revival of interest in ancient culture began in Italy in the 14thC, german pottery - jugs grew over the next hundred years into the Renaissance in Florence and spread widely. Little was known of Greek or Roman furniture, european style couches louis 13 but decorative features from classical architecture were grafted on to existing forms, antique english porter chair canework and new ones created. Carved, walnut antique bedside cabinet claw foot painted and gilded decoration on 15thC cassoni (lidded chests) bore coats-of-arms and depicted Olympian gods and goddesses as well as Christian saints; 16thC examples were shaped to resemble the Roman sarcophagus.
Columns and pilasters were applied to the credenza (low cupboard). Tables, william and mary buffet copied from fragments of Roman originals in marble, lenci pottery were carved with animal subjects. Intarsia inlaid decoration inspired by Roman mosaics depicted landscapes and still-life subjects in vivid perspective. Carved strapwork a flat, dining chairs with walnut legs
Carved walnut meuble-a-deux-corps, cattaneo of london barometer 16thC.
continuous geometric pattern was popular in northern Europe.
The Mannerist movement in art led to the carving of the nude or semi-nude human figure with elongated, armchair stylistic development distorted limbs; an extreme version of this style, 1800 german dresser hidden drawers known as Auricular, handle types on antique asian porcelain involved demonic caryatids on bed-heads, paris porcelain and marks and grotesque masks with huge ears as chair-backs.
Printed pattern books on architecture and furniture design began to appear in the 16thC. Works by Serlio, 18th century english shell crested chair Vredeman de Vries, satinwood pembroke tables Flotner, old oak table, 2 drop flaps Sambin, antique dragon table Du Cerceau and the German master known only as ‘H.S.’ were widely circulated and used by craftsmen internationally.
Some countries, antique writing table with thick square legs however, classicism furniture developed very individual versions of the Renaissance style. Spain, regency chair construction at the height of its power and wealth in the 16thC, three famous person art deco embellished furniture with silver from the New World, built-in cabinet by antonio gaudi and abstract decoration derived from the Islamic culture of the resident Moors. Doors and drawer-fronts were
Left, antique czechoslovakia vases armchair with panels of linenfold carving, hepplewhite footstool 16thC.
Right, capodimonte saucers cups antique 16thC carved caryatid with grotesque mask.
Drawer front with geometrical mouldings, cabinet makers chest fashionable throughout the 17th Century, gold bell shaped flower seed pearls earrings
decorated with mouldings arranged in geometric patterns a fashion that spread to the Spanish Netherlands and thence to much of Europe in the 17thC, georgian silver cream pail becoming a feature of many pieces regarded now as baroque.
BAROQUE FURNITURE STYLE
The word baroque means ‘irregular pearl’, vauxhall glass reproduction and many pieces in the style are partly asymmetrical, czechoslovakian antique porcelian vases being the work of sculptors such as Brustolon who carved life-size human figures in the round as supports for console tables and candle-stands. Most other pieces, thomas tompion tall case clock however, why are chairs called smokers bow
were symmetrical, frencj arm chair how to paint velvet chaies formal and heavy-looking.
The style first developed in Italy early in the 17thC, arts & craft settee using classical architecture as a basis but adding bold, reproduction victorian octagonal work table restless curves and rich decoration gilding, bergama rug painting in imitation of oriental lacquer, american art deco furniture veneering and marquetry (inlaying into veneers) in exotic woods, french regency rococo furniture pietre dure (hardstones) and metal.
In France, neoclassical candlesticks during the reign of Louis XIV (effectively 1600-1715), antique double chair back settee carved shell 1700 photo the royal cabinetmaker A.C. Boulle perfected the technique of boullework inlaying a turtleshell veneer with brass scrolls. He also created new shapes, sheffield silver company candelabera e.g. the commode (chest) with curved outline.
Louis XIV boulle bureau Mazarin, rococo scroll corners about 1690.
ROCOCO FURNITURE STYLE
Known in France, zanzibar doors cup board where it originated, antique furniture drawer construction with nails as rocaille, round antique molding the rococo (’rock and shell’) style was a reaction to the pompous, william and mary veneer tables macho, art nouveau development Louis XIV version of baroque. Soon after the king’s death in 1715, antiques chippendale dining tables restorers rococo was created by Meissonier and Pineau, card table inlaid shell and developed during the Rgence when Louis XV was still a child. The cabinetmaker Crescent perfected the bombe (’blown up’) commode (see CHESTS OF DRAWERS P. 234-246). The cabriole leg, 17th century oak carved four panel coffer with the delicate curve of an elongated ‘S’, wood storage cabinet sideboard table furniture replaced the turned or scrolled legs of the baroque.
Surfaces were decorated with floral marquetry or lacquer. Carving and ormolu (gilded bronze) mounts were often asymmetrical, italian lacquer furnitures/versailles especially in some areas (Spain, antique painted card table country #2 Scandinavia) where the style was adopted almost too eagerly; but at its best, breakfront furniture, painted it was charming.
The Paris guild of cabinet-makers and joiners enforced quality control on its members who, hooded french chairs 18th century from 1743 until the Revolution in 1789, small quarter-round table had to stamp their products with their names.
Foreign craftsmen and makers to the Crown were excused, antique german side board so contrary to popular belief not all fine French furniture is signed.
Chairs and settees were richly upholstered. Large mirrors, antique murano glass mirrors previously a Venetian monopoly, small 2 drawer antique dresser were produced in France for the Palace of Versailles which was imitated by the rich all over Europe. Those with less money to spend adopted a diluted version of the baroque style one that involved (in Portugal especially) much bold turning on the lathe to produce baluster, 1800 century decorating stile bulbous and spiral profiles.
NEO-CLASSICAL FURNITURE STYLE
The rococo style was replaced in France several years before the death of Louis XV in 1774 by what is now known as the Louis XVI style. This was heralded as a return to discipline after the frivolities of rocaille. Shapes changed from sinuous curves to rectilinear, german porcelain maker wallendorf 1764 circular or oval outlines. Cabriole legs gradually gave way to straight ones, meissen girl with basket figurine lamp and bombe carcases were soon outmoded in Paris, sideboard form the early 1900’s though remaining popular in Holland and Sweden.
Once again, wooton desk a paris designers returned to the ancient civilizations for their inspiration. In the late 1750s, chinese fretwork chairs a cosmopolitan group mingled in Rome, forms of famous saxon pottery Pompeii and Herculaneum, antique iredescent tea sets where recent excavations aroused fresh enthusiasm for classical ideas, 1807 fusee pocket watch although little more was known about ancient furniture itself than had been familiar to the men of the Renaissance. In the first phase of neo-classicism, antique french arm chair it was only the ornament on neo-classical furniture urns, watteau style porcelain plates rams’ heads, antique free standing lighted ashtray masks and so forth that owed much to antiquity.
Marquetry was as popular as ever, antique kneehole desk & bookcase and although mythological figures were favourite subjects for it in Northern Italy, moorse bros ceramics with no mark the French still liked their flowers, antique florentine mirror and many pieces were inset with Svres porcelain plaques painted
with floral subjects. Some of the finest craftsmen in Paris were German, macasar in paris and one of the greatest David Roentgen supplied the Crown with furniture made in his Neuwied workshops. Famous for his marquetry, how to find the maker of a carriage clock he was among the first to abandon it when fashion dictated a plainer style.
Left, rug two dogs symbol kingwood secretaire incorporating Sevres porcelain plaques, antique spindle bed about 1780.
Louis XVI gilded fauteuil, antique dragon carved hexagonal marble top table about 1770-1780.
DIRECTOIRE FURNITURE STYLE
The first to attempt furniture based on ancient prototypes was the artist David, antique armoire no-1600 on the back of it? who copied couches and chairs from paintings on Greek vases and had them made for him, spanish antique armchairs in about 1787, antique william and mary chest of drawers by the royal chairmaker, thomas tompion tall case clock Jacob, antique corner cabinet cupboard an admirer of English furniture and the first major French craftsman to use solid mahogany a wood that had been fashionable in England for 50 years. The severe, wallace sideboard no-nonsense style continued after the Revolution in 1789, victorian button back, under the short-lived Directoire.
EMPIRE FURNITURE STYLE
A partial return to grandeur accompanied a new phase of neo-classicism in the early years of the 19thC, hand painted antique bedside tables when Perrier and Fontaine dressed it up with eagles, vintage swiss silver gilt pearlset enamel pendant watch laurel wreaths and other imperial symbols to echo the glory of the Emperor Napoleon, bruce talbert pet sideboard and added sphinxes to mark his Egyptian campaign. These motifs were cast in bronze and applied to pieces of austere shape, louis 15th rococo chair legs some based on Roman or Greek prototypes. Great play was made with black and gold paint, bear and stag japanese jug and drinking mugs and fabrics striped like the tents of the armies. The style was imitated
across Europe, french feet on antique english furniture what period is it? even in countries at war with France, mahagony so that terms such as ‘Russian Empire’ are sometimes used misleadingly to describe the French Empire style as it was interpreted elsewhere. In Paris, reproduction le courte coffee table 10, antique maple gateleg drop leaf table with 3 leaves 000 hands were employed in the furniture trade, antique folding chairs the Jacob family being the leading manufacturers.
Directoire mahogany chair, antique-style.com about 1790-1800.
Empire X-frame stool, art deco writing desk about 1810.
BIEDERMEIER FURNITURE STYLE
This term should be confined to Austrian, art nouveau ring box 1800s German and Scandinavian furniture of 181S-SO, lion’s paw furniture feet but many pieces Russian (Alexander 1), regency vases Polish (the ‘Simmler’ style) and French (Charles X) strongly resemble early Biedermeier, 18th century fusee which followed the neo-classical principles of the Empire, antique george ii oak library table three drawer but expressed them more soberly.
Light-coloured woods were favoured. Comfortable sofas with swan-neck arms, sofa leg wheel antique brass hefty fall-front secretaires, victorian bedside commode lyre-backed chairs and circular dining tables on central supports, antique furniture prices were typical items designed mainly for the middle-class which the name originally satirised, bureau english nineteenth century value though the most notable designer was the Berlin court architect Schinkel. The biggest manufacturers in Vienna were Danhauser from 1804 to 1838, spiral reeded leg rectangular pine table and Thonet, love coat of arms lions head who set up a factory in 1842 for making bentwood furniture.
‘Late Biedermeier’ and ‘Second Empire’ are terms used to describe the European bourgeois home in the later 19thC: over-stuffed seating and over-decorated woodwork in a medley of styles based on romantic revivals. In France, compagnie general transatlantique chamberpot good copies of 18thC pieces were made, historismus double eagle side table price while a few designers notably Violletle-Duc attempted scholarly re-creations of medieval types. In Italy, antique fold top table with pedestal legs magnificent pastiches in the Renaissance and baroque styles were produced.
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE STYLE
This style takes its name from Bing’s shop in Paris which, octagonal oak gate leg table in the 1890s, antique carved wood chair sold both oriental imports and new, antique sellers cupboard upright revolutionary furniture.
Plant-form inspired the ‘whiplash line’ and asymmetrical shapes reminiscent of the rococo. Marquetry decoration was used by Majorelle and Gall of Nancy. Other leading designers were Endell of Germany and the Belgian, neoclassical upholstery fabric van de Velde. ‘Viking’ furniture was dreamed up in Scandinavia, bureau bookshelf while Munthe’s offbeat chairs in black and white, antique walnut italian mid 19th century mirror based on peasant patterns, louise the 14 chairs anticipated Art Deco.
French art nouveau cabinet, antique knee hole desks with marquetry decoration, victorian inlaid rosewood table about 1900.
Charles X dressing-table, antique oak lion head round table about 1850.
Biedermeier birchwood sofa, jacobethan dining room set about 1820.
In the 1920s, antique dutch pine bedside the Bauhaus was set up in Germany, drop leaf butler’s tray coffee table under the direction of Gropius, sevres boucher plate to create furniture suited to modern needs, italian mahogany china hutch to which Le Corbusier’s concept of the home as a

factory for living was first cousin.
Gerrit Rietveld Red and Blue chair; 1918.
ART DECO FURNITURE STYLE
Many people, value my antique roll top desk value however, antique frosted epergne of woman still yearned for luxury. At an exhibition of decorative arts in Paris in 1925, dinning room table against wall Le Corbusier’s display was in stark contrast to the lavish flavour of Ruhlmann’s exhibits, 19th century shaving which gave a new and very expensive twist to adaptations of 18thC design, classicism furniture using costly materials for items purporting to be functional.
Art Deco wrought-iron console table, bergere high white 1930s.
MODERNIST FURNITURE STYLE
A reaction against art nouveau began in Vienna soon after 1900 and continued in Berlin with the setting up of workshops for producing good inexpensive furniture, edwardian narrow bookcase using hand skills in association with machinery. During the 1914-18 war, gate-legged, ball foot tables Rietveld worked in neutral Holland on angular chairs, french art deco club chair put together without recourse to normal joinery, antique desk bible and painted in red, 19th century bell mortar blue and yellow.
Debased versions of jazzy Art Deco were soon being mass-produced, antique burgundy indigo blue oriental rugs but there was much good, pietre dure antiques galleries medium-range furniture made between the two world wars, antique watch bracelet enamel especially that produced under Scandinavian influence. Plain and simple, victorian carved floral panel cupboard modern but not ultra-modern, antique furniture with hand inlay it owed at least in spirit as much to the Biedermeier tradition as to the Bauhaus and art nouveau.
Palisander wood card table and chairs, burr walnut piano top davenport by Maurice Dubene, art nouveau maple china hutch 1930s.

Louis XVI Style Furniture
The Louis XVI style, which represented the bentwood chair marks triumph of the leopold stickley coffee table Neo-classical over the antique yew desks Rococo, can be divided into two phases, from about 1770 to 1780 and about 1780 to 1795. The first phase, which was well established
before Louis XVI actually came to the jacobean revival furniture throne in 1774, was an extravagant one. Although the black walnut antique chest superficial decoration of Rococo had given way to more substantial classical forms, with a noticeable return to architectural principles, heavy bronze ornamentation was still much in evidence, marquetry was as intricate and as beautiful as it was ever likely to be, and mechanical devices were still prominent features in a variety of pieces. An enormous amount of money was still being spent on furniture. Riesener, for example, was said to have received over ?20,000 for one piece.
In the rosewood claw foot chest second phase, when France was beginning to feel the harlequin designs candlesticks effects of the nicolas denis delaisement never-ending extravagances of the lancashire antique chairs 1900th century court of Louis XV, styles became much simpler. More home-grown woods were used in place of costly
tropical varieties. Bronze-work diminished in quantity ? and on occasions in quality as well. Marquetry was gradually edged into second place,desks, perhaps not as intricate as the english salt glazed stoneware tankard 1600’s picture? famous Bureau du Roi but fine and
costly all the folding top antique writing desk same, bureaux-plats, commodes, and smaller items for women, who still exerted much influence on design. The drop-front secretaire continued to be in demand. A development of the old trestle desk legs Spanish vargueno (see page 32), this useful item stood against a wall, so the small ladies french desks back of it did not require any decoration; indeed, some of those with the types of antique table legs finest marquetry and bronze-work on the antique serving table front and sides present the english oak four poster wood leather and metal bed appearance of a packing-case at the english medieval beds back.
Bureaux-plats of the lowboy plain period became more rectangular, with straight legs. One, by Montigny (maitre 1766) is particularly fine in its simplicity. Commodes had features additional to those customary in earlier periods.
Some had three drawers in a frieze arrangement above the antique square table with lift top, sliding leaves under top larger drawers. They were Riesener was commissioned by Marie Antoinette to make this secretaire a abattant Louis XVI bureau-plat, made in a bout 1780 by Montigny. Its simplicity dernonstrates the products used for restoring antiques classical ideas of the victoria china czechoslovakia fruit period well break-fronted, like later Transitional commodes. Legs were straight, turned, fluted and tapering, and were usually very short. The bronze mounts were restrained and heightened the neo classic design table for top lines of the germen oak cabinet carcase. There also appeared a development of the dutch mirror commode, the mixing types of legs on table commode d encoignure. This consisted of a central commode section flanked on either side by an encoignure. There is one in the staffordshire markings chamber pot Frick Collection in New York, made by Roger Lacroix (RX.L.C.) in about 1770, which has been described as marking the antique chests tudor ‘triumph of classical over Rococo.’
Menuisiers continued to search for the spider leg table with brass tray ultimate in comfort and elegance in sofas, day-beds, and to a lesser extent in chairs. The upholstery was as important as the wood frame chamber pot carving and decoration of the mathew norman swiss made london 1760 framework, and a
variety of materials were used: silk in a rich array of colours, velvet, embroidery (grospoint and petitpoint), moquettes (see page 41) and damask. Chairs were also made in more simple styles with canework seats and
backs. Carved motifs took new forms, such as ribbonwork, cupid’s bows and arrows, love-knots, classical features such as acanthus leaves, laurel, and a number of other designs executed to individual requirements.
Woodwork was still gilded or painted, as well as left in its pristine condition.
Louis XVI chairs have individual features quite different from Louis XV and Transitional chairs. Straight legs, tapering, sometimes fluted, reeded or spiralled, descending from rectangular blocks with a rosette decorating the antique 18th century ball and claw arm chair two outer surfaces, take the antique furniture rockford illinois place of cabriole legs, although the bedroom louis xv antique latter did not vanish altogether. New types of back appear, the violin sideboard oval or medallion kind, first seen in about 1775, and squarer styles, occasionally flanked by columns. In 1780s the antique furniture w/block base vogue for splat-back chairs which had been enjoyed for some generations in English houses began to encroach upon the fake desk with winged griffins for legs Paris scene.
The arms of Louis XVI chairs with straight legs were brought forward over the rococo interior in colonies front legs. They rose upwards and curved backwards into the furniture designers during the jacobean time back frame. The horizontal members were padded and occasionally
brass-studded round the oval coffee table cross struts fine legs material. Despite the 18th century newport chest of drawers serpentine front bracket feet fine classical proportions, the antique writing cabinet se chairs
seemed to revert to the antique round backed and seat chair rigidity so common in much earlier furniture. Whatever else may be said of many Louis XVI chairs the antique furniture values y do not have the kas dining table same relaxed properties of the writing bureaus 19th centuary fauteuils of the antique furniture auctioneers Louis XV period.
In the wooden antique rent table last few years before the late empire serpentine marble mantle piece Revolution it became increasingly clear that the antique bed side tables extravagance of the walnut table for 12 people court and the antique octagonal clawfoot table nobility would have to be radically reduced, or national bankruptcy would follow (as indeed it did, in
1788, when Brienne declared the antique rococo victorian medallion back down sofa nation insolvent). This realization is reflected in much of the louis xiv side chair furniture of the 17th century mahogany antique bed se years. Mahogany, widely used in England for forty years, now emerged as one of the 3 legs dresser commonest
materials employed by the louis bedside table with chippendale handles Paris ebertistes. With careful cutting, shaping and positioning, mahogany proved to be an excellent substitute for expensive marquetry, particularly if combined with metal mounting. At this
time brass was used more widely for mounts. It was easier to work and less expensive.
Royal furniture, however, continued to have every skill lavished upon its manufacture, and Riesener and his associates were, right up to and even beyond the hepplewhite dressing table with mirror fall of the canterbury music stand Bastille, making very expensive items, although
they were finding it divan with fine upholstery and gilding
G. Beneman made this mahogany veneered commode in the fake antique dealer from south africa hold city auctions Louis XVI style, with bronze mounts, in about 1787 increasingly difficult to extract payment for the carved oak serving table ir work.
Just as Oeben personified the buffet louis xvi cherry grand rapids ebenisterie of the antique bronze vases color dark blue Transitional period, so his senior assistant Riesener dominated the staffordshire tin glaze ebenisterie of Louis XVI. There is a kind of magic in Riesener’s name, which is to a great extent justified. But it should never be overlooked that much work by his contemporaries was every bit as fine, in particular that by Carlin, Roger Lacroix, and Leleu. Riesener was born near Essen in 1734. At twenty he emigrated to Paris and joined Oeben’s workshops, where he soon demonstrated the louis xiv round dining table unique mastery he was to have of the antique dressers leaf pattern art of ebenisterie. He became maitre in 1768.
Twelve months later Riesener finished the antique round lions foot table Bureau du Roi, having inscribed his name as maker in the greek and roman wood carving motifs marquetry. It will of course never be known how much of the hoof cleaning ant tool museum bureau was his work and how much Oeben’s, but it evidently delighted the snuff pill box ivory lid king who, a few years later, appointed Riesener as ebeniste du roi. Thereafter Riesener received the examples of antique marquetry patronage of the ebonised four-column pedestal folding card table royal
(left) Typical Louis XVI fauteuil with beechwood frame, carved and gilt rechampi white, made by G. Jacob, perhaps the antique mirror writing desk greatest menuisier of the faience animals with metal feet century
(right) Riesener’s versatility as a craftsman is shown in this ebony commode with panels of Japanese black and gold lacquer, and extensive bronze mounts. It was made in about 1785
family for many years. It seems that not long before the sofa fabric types 1900s Revolution his pre-eminence had been clouded. The treasury apparently requested him to revise his charges, and the michael thonet rocking chair king, meanwhile, had transferred his favour
to another German-born ebeniste, Guillaume Beneman. But Riesener remained the harlequin pattern on furniture favourite of the korean porcelain marks queen, Marie Antoinette, and continued to make furniture for her almost up to the names of antique tablemakers year of her execution. After the small sideboard cabinet with glass doors and bow front formation of the antique refectory table walnut Directoire he retired, and died in 1806. Riesener’s work was a major influence on ebenisterie of his time. He was a versatile craftsman, especially gifted at elaborate marquetry, but no less skilled at the susani carpet
plainer designs. He also designed most of his own mounts.
The early days of the deco style curved armchair Revolution did not at first affect the italian furniture makers 18th century Paris furniture-maker, who seemed to think that the mahogany what-not shelf sheraton crisis was only a temporary one. But once the gilded regency window seat king and the antique gout foot stand queen had perished on the writing bureau deco guillotine, the antique drop leaf with butterfly leaf tables old
order had been swept away, and even the ch. oudin palais royal 52 calendar changed, it was clear that the oak bureau 1750 lancs end had come to a unique period of furniture. Thereafter, cost was all important, until the press linen tall boy mahogany victorian emergence of Napoelon Bonaparte, when to
signify his imperial power he initiated a new wave of luxury in the 18th century flemish chandelier decorative arts.