Posts Tagged ‘Chippendale’
Friday, January 15th, 2010
VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK, haddon hall antique serving platters late 19th century, antique biedermeier dining table new jersey MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE, table edge carving 18th cent PEMBROKE TABLE, lacquer paper mache powder pot circa 1780
A PAIR OF ANTIQUE I STYLE INLAID SATIN-WOOD DEMILUNE SIDE CABINETS, antique medallion melas rug the crossbanded [...]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
An unusual walnut Davenport, tortoiseshell in furniture late 19th Century, carl thieme, dresden factory the hinged writing surface enclosing pigeon-hole and above a pair of doors, library table with leather top one enclosing drawers, how to repair delftware the other shelves, used antique gothic furniture, london on bun
feet, how to identify [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: antique furniture, bedstead, BLANKET, cabinet maker, cabriole, canopy, Card, CELLARET, chairs, chests, chests of drawers, Chippendale, corner cupboards, cupboard, Cupboards, Dining, drawers, Dressing, eighteenth, eighteenth century, Heppelwhite, King, mahogany, Mattresses, Pembroke, Spanish, special interest, Stands, TABLES
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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 [...]
Tags: 18th Century Furniture, american colonies, BLANKET, Cabinet, cabinet makers, Century, characteristic, Charles II, CHEST, Chippendale, classical figure, commodes, Cupboards, dressing tables, English, furniture books, furniture cabinet, george iii, George IV, gold frames, Heppelwhite, italian artists, japanning, mahogany, old furniture, Pembroke, Robert Adam, Sheraton, strawberry hill, Thomas Sheraton, toilet table, victoria and albert, victoria and albert museum
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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 [...]
Tags: Adam, book shelves, cabinet maker, century furniture, Chippendale, cupboard, decoration, eighteenth century, french renaissance, furniture, Heppelwhite, Queen Anne, Renaissance, sideboard, Style, violent change, William, work
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
ANTIQUE ELIZABETHAN FURNITURE. ELIZABETHAN TABLES, CHESTS, CHAIRS AND GATE-LEGS
Collectors of old furniture who carry the antique leather porters chair ir investigations beyond the oak serpentine chest point at which it is fairly easy to distinguish one period from another, may be tempted to agree with a worried amateur collector who, in [...]
Tags: ACANTHUS, amateur collector, ASH, Cabinet, cabriole, CARVING, chair, CHEST, Chippendale, design, despair, dressers, English, fine furniture, Gothic, Museum, old furniture, Queen Elizabeth, TABLES, work
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Antique Beds Furniture
BEDS. Ancient drawings portray well developed bed types in Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome. Over basie structures of stone, wood, or metal were thrown animal skins and textile for softness and warmth. The framework was often well designed and adorned with inlays or appliques of metal, ivory, etc.
Egyptian [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Antique Chairs Furniture
CHAIR. The chair, a single movable seat, is most ancient. Most familiar types were known in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome; significantly the three cornered antique dressers names for special types are ancient.
Egyptian remains indicate the antique style french mahogany marquetry secretary use of chairs of wood as well [...]
Tags: ANTIQUE, antique chairs, Baroque, chair, Chippendale, curule chair, early middle ages, English, furniture, ivory, Louis XV, Queen Anne
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
COMMODE - CONNECTICUT CHEST - CORNER ARMCHAIR - CORNER CUPBOARD
COMMODE* The commode is a loosely defined type of ehest or cabinet, usually low and used against a wall as a receptacle, bureau, ehest, console, etc. It may have doors or drawers, on the raoul lachenal pottery Continent the antique chippendale tip [...]
Tags: Architectural, CARVING, Chippendale, commode, CONSOLE, corner cupboard, decorative pieces, empire style, English, english history, figure, furniture, modem, table, wood, wood furniture
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS - CLASSIC STYLE - CLOCK CASES - CORNUCOPIA SOFA - COFFEE TABLE - CHOP INLAY
CHINTZ. Inexpensive thin cotton cloth, fast printed with designs of flowers, etc., in a number of colors and usually glazed. It Is useful for minor draping and slip Covers.
CHIP CARVING. Simple carved ornament executed with [...]
Tags: Baroque, cabinet maker, Chippendale, CINQUECENTO, clock cases, COCK, coffee table, Egypt, England, English, France, furniture design, Louis XVI, Northern Africa, Queen Anne, rococo manner, southeastern Europe, Spanish, walnut
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