Posts Tagged ‘Egypt’

CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS - CLASSIC STYLE - CLOCK CASES - CORNUCOPIA SOFA - COFFEE TABLE - CLOTHES PRESS - CHOP INLAY

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 [...]

ARCHITECTE FURNITURE - ARCHITECTE TABLE - ARMOIRE - ASH WOOD

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

ARCHITECTE FURNITURE. Specifically, English furniture of the elizabethan state bed 18th Century, designed by architects and exhibiting architectural features, as arches, columns, etc.
ARCHITECTE TABLE. Desk with drawing board in a drawer or otherwise attached, with other drawers for supplies. Made in England in the gillow & co pot cupboard late 18th [...]

Antique Oriental Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Oriental Furniture
Advanced though most of the another got an antique maple chippendale highboy dresser? Oriental civilizations have been, the design pattern for circular wooden stand furniture of the mechanized furniture 19th century East cannot really compare with that of Europe, except perhaps for the antique chairs brass inlay best lacquered pieces [...]

English Renaissance Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

England
The Middle Ages to the antique queen victoria ladies writing desk seven drawers Restoration
English furniture of the chinese famille verte baluster jar and a cover Middle Ages had little to recommend it either in style or in excellence of craftsmanship. Linenfold carving (see page 17) was one of a few exceptions. [...]

Spanish Renaissance Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Spain and Portugal
Spain was not a united nation until the antigue victorian knee hole side table very end of the old book case with pegs fifteenth century, when the serpentine wardrobes in satinwood vigorous, gallant and cultivated Moors were expelled by Ferdinand V of Aragon. At first, the jacobean sideboard refore, [...]

Ancient Greek and Roman Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

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 [...]

Ancient Egypt Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

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 [...]