Posts Tagged ‘Directoire’

CANDLE STAND - CARD TABLES - CARTOUCHE - CARVER CHAIR - CASTERS - CEDAR CHESTS

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

CANDLE STAND - CARD TABLES - CARTOUCHE - CARVER CHAIR - CASTERS - CEDAR CHESTS
CANDLE BOARDS Small sliding shelf beneath a table top, used to hold a candlestick. Principally English 18th Century.
CANDLE SLIDE. Sliding shelf just over the anglo american brass roll top desk lock desk section of secretaries, on which [...]

English Reproductions of 18th-Century French Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

English copies of 18th-Century French Furniture
It has been noted (see page 124) that after the 18th and 19th century small octagonal table designs execution of Louis XVI of France in 1793 large quantities of eighteenth-century French furniture made by the bobbin leg table Paris ebenistes were bought at sales by English [...]

19th Century French Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

French Furniture
Directoire and Empire
The French Revolution, which broke out in 1789, did not put an immediate end to the antique furniture yuba city Louis XVI period of furniture. There were still people about who were rich enough to order and pay for or bold enough to order and not pay for [...]