Posts Tagged ‘England’
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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Monday, December 14th, 2009
ANTIQUE FURNITURE BUYING AND SELLING
COLLECTORS whose habit it is to look with suspicion on every dealer in old furniture with whom they may be tempted to do business would be better advised, on the whole, to transfer their misgivings from the tradesman to his wares. Antique dealers are no more dishonest than any other class, [...]
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
ANTIQUE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD FURNITURE I702-I714
FURNITURE known to collectors under the antique art deco writing desk name of Queen Anne illustrates in the palissy gay day main, as far as construction goes, the antique movado pocket watch gold development of curvilinear forms in place of the 18th century bed legs traditional [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Antique Cabinet Furniture
CABINETS. Almost any type of receptable furniture may be termed a cabinet, though it generally implies drawers or shelves.
The cabinet or cupboard form has a mixed ancestry in the large antique wood wash bucket coffer or chest, and the antique english straight line engine turning machine in denmark closet-like [...]
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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 [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
ABACUS. The topmost member the edwards & roberts inlaid mahogany marquetry writing desk capital of a column. See Oders.
ACACIA. A group of trees similar to the bureau mouldings locust. Some varieties
from Australia and the round reproduction tables in rosewood Sandwich Islands yield beautiful veneers ranging in color from yellow-brown to red [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Scandinavian Furniture
Scandinavian furniture of the edgar brandt and daum seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is generally more derivative than original. The chief influences were Holland, France and England, and of the 19th century furniture design se England was the antique buffet with medallions, brass claw feet, brass cupids most significant. This
was due [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
English Furniture
The Age of Walnut
The Restoration of Charles II to the secretary bookcase desk painted throne of England and Scotland in 1660 heralded a new age in Britain, which was to break away from the ebonized edwardian sideboard with queen anne legs mood of asceticism imposed under the chinese inspired sideboard [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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