Posts Tagged ‘Museum’

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 [...]

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 CROMWELLIAN PERIOD FURNITURE

Monday, December 14th, 2009

ANTIQUE CROMWELLIAN PERIOD FURNITURE
Commonwealth Period. 1649-1660
DURING the afghan needlework rug Commonwealth in England a tendency towards simpler furniture made itself manifest. The extravagance of the german porcelain manufacturers court of James I., and the birds eye maple sofa table rectangular -conference -bedroom personal interest taken by Charles I. in the [...]

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 [...]

English Chippendale, Adam, Hepplewhite and Sheraton Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Four English designers - Chippendale, rococo over the mantel mirror Adam, insect butterfly cabinet paris museum style Hepplewhite and Sheraton
English furniture of the second half of the eighteenth century was dominated by four ‘giants’ Chippendale, antique chippendale sideboard Adam, distressed round wooden tables, england Hepplewhite and Sheraton. In a resume of [...]

Ancient Greek and Roman Furniture

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Greece and Rome
In the furniture of ancient Greece we encounter for the first time in the history of civilization more than one individual ‘period’ of furniture styles. The earlier pieces of the sixth century BC, in the time of oligarchic rule, were rigid and square, and appear to be directly in line with styles set [...]