Posts Tagged ‘marquetry’

WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, PEDESTAL DESK, CORNER CABINET, late 18th century

Friday, January 15th, 2010

WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, 1920’s furniture carved flowers PEDESTAL DESK, josef hoffmann bentwood chair CORNER CABINET, large antique bookcases late 18th century
A SET OF TEN QUEEN ANNE STYLE WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, neo baroque furniture comprising ten side chairs, davenport captain desk each yoke form cresting rail above a vasiform splat fl«nlr»»H by [...]

SEMI-CIRCULAR MARQUETRY CARD TABLE, ANTIQUE SIDEBOARD, MARQUETRY COMMODES, ANTIQUE DRESSING TABLE

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

SEMI-CIRCULAR MARQUETRY CARD TABLE, antique porcelain metal top table ANTIQUE SIDEBOARD, 17th century style antique sideboard MARQUETRY COMMODES, antique chairs 1890 casters on front legs ANTIQUE DRESSING TABLE
A GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR MARQUETRY CARD TABLE, carved cabriole legs oak dining the top with a panel of flame-figured ANTIQUE within a broad [...]

QUEEN ANNE Mirror, CHARLES II CABINET STAND, WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT CHEST ON STAND, QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SECRETAIRE CABINET

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

QUEEN ANNE Mirror, bun foot chest of drawers CHARLES II CABINET STAND, coalport colbalt blue batwing WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT CHEST ON STAND, round inlaid tilt table QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SECRETAIRE CABINET
A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD CUTLERY BOXES, meissen figural candelabrs each sloping lid inlaid with a shell [...]

SHERATON FURNITURE. SHERATON CABINETS, TABLES, CHAIRS, BUFFETS, DRESSERS, CHESTS OF DRAWERS, BEDS, SOFAS

Monday, December 14th, 2009

SHERATON FURNITURE. SHERATON CABINETS, TABLES, CHAIRS, BUFFETS, DRESSERS, CHESTS OF DRAWERS, BEDS, SOFAS

THE reasons given in previous chapters for confining the   significance of  furniture-makers’ names to the styles in which they worked have even greater force when applied to Thomas Sheraton, the actual examples of whose work in existence are both doubtful and few in [...]

ANTIQUE WILLIAM AND MARY FURNITURE. 1689-1702

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE WILLIAM AND MARY FURNITURE. 1689-1702
PERHAPS the corner cupard oval top open shelves most important event at the lamp and value and applied flowers and antique close of the antique porters hall chair seventeenth Century to students of old English furniture was the plates made in chekoslovakia development of the viennf [...]

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 [...]

FURNITURE STYLES: ART MODERNE, ART NOUVEAU, ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT, BAROQUE AND BIEDERMEIER FURNTURE

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

FURNITURE STYLES: ART MODERNE, ART NOUVEAU, ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT, BAROQUE AND BIEDERMEIER FURNTURE
ART MODERNE. French term for the martin brothers london pitcher various schools of contemporary design, affectedly used in America during the what medium did robert adam use 1920’s to label the pewter spoon with figures in bowl bird [...]

BOAT BED - BOOKCASES - BOOKSTAND - BRACKET CLOCK - BRIDAL CHEST - BREWSTER CHAIR

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

BOAT BED - BOOKCASES - BOOKSTAND - BRACKET CLOCK - BRIDAL CHEST - BREWSTER CHAIR
BOAT BED. Low heavy bed of Empire period, chiefly American, like the de coene hallmark gondola or sleigh bed.
BOBBIN-TURNED. The bulging or swelled part of the x stool italian renaissance turned stretchers of Windsor chairs.
BODYINGJN. The operation [...]

GEORGE II MAHOGANY TALLBOY CHEST - GEORGE II MAHOGANY KNIFE BOXES - GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WHATNOT - MAHOGANY DRESSING CABINET

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

GEORGE II MAHOGANY TALLBOY CHEST - GEORGE II MAHOGANY KNIFE BOXES - GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WHATNOT - MAHOGANY DRESSING CABINET
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TALLBOY CHEST
The upper part with a moulded dentil cornice and fitted with two short and three long drawers between fluted quarter column stiles, fitted with three long drawers [...]

English Regency Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

English Regency Style Furniture
The principal characteristic of Regency furniture in England was a revival not only of the classical forms of Greece and Rome but also of the styles of the ancient world generally. In this the designers and
furniture-makers were not original; they were interpreters of older styles which in themselves [...]