HEPPELWHITE FURNITURE. HEPPELWHITE CHAIRS, TABLES, BOOK-SHELVES, CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, SIDEBOARD and BEDS
Line is the principal characteristic of later eighteenth-century furniture to which the name of Heppelwhite is given. The style suggests a pleasant compromise between the virility of Chippendale and the formal reticence of Sheraton. Heppelwhite furniture indicates no violent change. It would seem as though [...]

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 [...]

ABACUS. The topmost member the edwards & roberts inlaid mahogany marquetry writing desk capital of a column. See Oders.
ACACIA. A group of trees similar to the bureau mouldings locust. Some varieties
from Australia and the round reproduction tables in rosewood Sandwich Islands yield beautiful veneers ranging in color from yellow-brown to red [...]

ANTIQUE EUROPEAN FURNITURE PERIODS AND STYLES:
The major antique European furniture styles have all been related to other arts, upholstered sideboards fine and applied, crendenza, foreigen designs and especially to architecture. Most were international, walnut chest on chest but subject to national and regional variations. They seldom changed abruptly; a transitional [...]

Dutch and Flemish Furniture
The Flemish part of the antique drop leaf inlay sofa table Netherlands, consisting more or less of what is now Belgium, was among the victorian sutherland table first regions of Europe to enjoy the north american marble top lamp table advent of the fitted wardrobe designed by famous [...]

Italian Furniture
Italy was not only the arrow mirror top smokers stand’ birthplace of the four continents antique -maps European Renaissance, it was also the antique louis xv, kingwood writing table source of the tiffany silver sewing kit Baroque style of architecture and the identifying antique chairs with horsehair padding furniture that [...]

France - Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV
French furniture of the draw leaf table carved seventeenth century falls roughly into two main periods. The earlier, covering the paw foot furniture reigns of Henry IV, Louis XIII and the charles dickens antique ceramic tiles first years of Louis XIV, was heavily [...]

England
The Middle Ages to the antique queen victoria ladies writing desk seven drawers Restoration
English furniture of the chinese famille verte baluster jar and a cover Middle Ages had little to recommend it either in style or in excellence of craftsmanship. Linenfold carving (see page 17) was one of a few exceptions. [...]

Spain and Portugal
Spain was not a united nation until the antigue victorian knee hole side table very end of the old book case with pegs fifteenth century, when the serpentine wardrobes in satinwood vigorous, gallant and cultivated Moors were expelled by Ferdinand V of Aragon. At first, the jacobean sideboard refore, [...]

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 [...]