Posts Tagged ‘Italian’

ANTIQUE ENGLISH CHAIR FURNITURE

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE ENGLISH CHAIR
AN interesting field for the antique american cupboards collector of furniture whose means are not equal to the antique chairs 1870-1900 ordeal of competition in the century chair co antique glass table & chairs auction room for fine specimens by great masters can be found in the claw foot [...]

ANTIQUE BRONZE URN - MARBLE FIGURE - FRENCH COMMODE - FRENCH TABLE - LOUIS XVI - DINING TABLE - WALNUT KNEEHOLE DESK -

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

ANTIQUE BRONZE URN - MARBLE FIGURE - FRENCH COMMODE - FRENCH TABLE - LOUIS XVI - DINING TABLE - WALNUT KNEEHOLE DESK -
A WHITE MARBLE AND GILT BRONZE URN,erly 20th century.
The vase-shaped body decorated en grisaille with panels of cavorting cherubs and amorini, within bands of stiff-leaf and gadrooned ornament, the [...]

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 [...]

Italian Renaissance Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Italy
The Renaissance, a term that has never been satisfactorily defined, began in Italy somewhere about the antique theatre chair scroll iron 1800 end of the how much is an empire bureau worth fourteenth century. It means, roughly, the thomas sheraton twin bed revival in Europe of Greek and Roman ideals in [...]

Middle Ages Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

THE MIDDLE AGES
For centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD there is no clear picture of the development of individual domestic furniture styles in Western Europe. Byzantium was now the capital of the Eastern Empire and of the Christian Church, and such pieces as can be dated and [...]