Posts Tagged ‘Gothic’

rosewood Card Table, oak small Gate leg Table, Louis XV-style walnut Stool, antique drop-leaf Table

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

A William IV rosewood Card Table, antique victorian furniture with ormolu mounts on legs on a receded pillar and shaped platform base with paw feet, antique card table folds in half and swings 92cm.
A Chinese hang haul small Altar Table, antique mahogany desk in 2 pieces dovetail joints hidden compartments with [...]

Victorian oak Gothic Revival Hall Chairs, gilt-gesso oval Wall Mirror, Edwardian inlaid cabriole-leg Armchairs, antique and rosewood banded secretary Bookcase

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Victorian oak Gothic Revival Hall Chairs, rococo buffet gilt-gesso oval Wall Mirror, reed leg tea table Edwardian inlaid cabriole-leg Armchairs, antique acorn & leaf jug antique and rosewood banded secretary Bookcase
A George III-style gilt-gesso oval Wall Mirror, childdrens bentwood rockers with a swag cresting , antique side boards 125cm.
An Edwardian [...]

GEORGE II MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED CHEST OF DRAWERS, GEORGE II WALNUT LIBRARY ARMCHAIR, PEMBROKE TABLE

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

GEORGE II MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED CHEST OF DRAWERS, GEORGE II WALNUT LIBRARY ARMCHAIR, PEMBROKE TABLE
A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS, the www.french candleabra molded scrolling top rails cantered by acanthus leaf, with pierced scrolling Gothic splats, the large brass casters for tables out curved arms with shapedmounded supports, the bergman [...]

CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE. CHIPPENDALE TABLES, CHARS, BEDS, DRESSERS, CUPBOARDS, BEDS, SOFAS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE. CHIPPENDALE TABLES, CHARS, BEDS, DRESSERS, CUPBOARDS, BEDS, SOFAS
NO style of furniture is better known to the average collector than Chippendale, yet no style  has  suffered  more  from  general ignorance about it.   The name appears to have caught the imaginations of collectors, apart from the huge prices realised at auction for authentic work of [...]

ANTIQUE ELIZABETHAN FURNITURE. ELIZABETHAN TABLES, CHESTS, CHAIRS, DRESSERS, CUPBOARDS AND GATE-LEGS

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 [...]

Antique Cabinets Furniture

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 [...]

Antique Pine Furniture

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

PINE FURNITURE
Pine was used for all kinds of furniture, so that in some ways it should be shown in most sections of this book. However, it has become customary for pine furniture to be a separate part of the is mahogany a fashionable woos antique trade, with
specialist shops catering for this [...]

English Furniture Periods and Styles

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

GUIDE TO ENGLISH ANTIQUE FURNITURE PERIODS AND STYLES
English furniture styles developed in ways broadly in line with those of mainland Europe, art deco figurine but were interpreted in a distinctive fashion. There were also many regional variations within the British Isles — a term that once encompassed England, 1930’s folding wood [...]

18th Century Spanish Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Spain and Portugal
At the s.lelli longcase clocks beginning of the black marble mantel clocks /corinthian columns seventeenth century Spain was the secret drawers in bureau dominant nation in Europe, but its power and influence were already declining, chiefly as a result of its fruitless political struggles with England and Holland.
The enormous [...]

French Renaissance Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

France
The last years of the antique x shaped stretcher tables fifteenth and the antique bisque figurines manufacturers first part of the walnut highboy sixteenth century were years of national glory for France. Her armies invaded and conquered parts of Italy, and thus brought France directly into contact with the mother of [...]