Posts Tagged ‘marquetry’
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: Abbey Street, Adam Period, adjustable shelf, anthemion, ANTIQUE, antique dressing table, antique sideboard, Birmingham, bookcase, bow, Century, commodes, COMPANION, cupboard doors, DESK, English, FINE, furniture, george iii, inlay, Lord Shrewsbury, marquetry, Mayhew, Museum, pigeon holes, purple heart, SATINWOOD, sofa table, table, TABLES, Thomas Archer, triangular pediment, tulipwood, Victoria, William
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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 [...]
Tags: anne margaret, BALUSTER, Baron Sober, bun feet, cabriole, cabriole leg, camphorwood, Century, chamfered, CHEST, classical figure, cupboard, CUTLERY, drawers, earl of leicester, GEORGE II, george iii, ivory, mahogany, marquetry, MARY BURR-WALNUT CANDLE, MARY OYSTER-VENEERED, MARY WALNUT, MIRROR, Museum, OYSTER-VENEERED, QUEEN ANNE Mirror, QUEEN ANNE OVERMANTEL, QUEEN ANNE WALNUT, rectangular base, secretaire, SERPENTINE, spinning wheels, square legs, STAND, standing, Thomas William Coke, TRIPOD, Victoria, victoria and albert, victoria and albert museum, walnut, walnut cabinet, william and mary
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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 [...]
Tags: bookcase, brass, buffets, cabinet maker, cabinet makers, carpet, chair backs, chests of drawers, design, Dining, dressers chests, Empire, furniture, furniture makers, marquetry, parlour, Queen Anne, Rococo, secretaire, Sheraton Furniture, sideboard, sofas, standing, thomas chippendale, Thomas Sheraton, wine cooler
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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 [...]
Tags: ARCHITRAVE, ARROW, Cabinet, cabriole leg, chair makers, Charles II, CHEST, chests of drawers, corner cupboard, Egyptian, egyptian furniture, english chair, English Furniture, english people, furniture, James II, marquetry, Museum, oak, Queen Anne, reproduction, seventeenth century, Sir Christopher Wren, upholstery, velvet, walnut, William, william and mary, windsor chair, wood, woodwork
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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 [...]
Tags: 18th century, ANTIQUE, antique cabinet, ARMOIRE, article of furniture, cabinet furniture, Cabinets, coffer, cupboard, England, furniture cabinets, Gothic, marquetry, sideboard, solid wood
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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 [...]
Tags: Art, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, Baroque, furniture styles, FURNTURE, Jugendstil, marquetry, MODERNE, NOUVEAU
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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 [...]
Tags: BED, bonnets, bookcase, BOOKCASES, BOOKSTAND, BRACKET, bracket clock, BREWSTER, Cabinet, chair, CHEST, Chippendale, CLOCK, France, french desk, marquetry, MOULDING, Provincial, windsor chairs
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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 [...]
Tags: A GEORGE IV, Cabinet, Cabinets, CROSSBANDED, DECANTER, drawer, furniture, GEORGE II, george iii, glass decanters, knife boxes, mahogany, mahogany chest, marquetry, MIRROR, PAINTED, panelled doors, Regency, rosewood, SATINWOOD, TALLBOY, wall cabinets, WHATNOT, WHITE, work
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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 [...]
Tags: Cabinet, Cabinetmaker, cabinetmakers, cabriole, chair, classical styles, dark mahogany, English, english regency style, French, french craftsmen, furniture makers, marquetry, Regence, Regency, regency furniture, regency period, rosewood, sofa, Victoria
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