Posts Tagged ‘chest of drawers’
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
CHESTS dressing
The dressing chest appears to be a Victorian invention and, although out of favour for some years, it was quite a good idea. The addition of a mirror to a normal chest of drawers was a quite common form but
sometimes the chest top was modified into a minor dressing table top with small drawers [...]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
CHESTS OF DRAWERS - 1860-1930
The period 1860-1930 is not particularly associated with beautiful chests of drawers in the traditional antique collector’s view. Wooden knobs and nasty turned feet are what spring immediately to mind. Unlike the 18th century, where the chest played a decorative role, the chest of drawers was relegated to the bedroom in [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
CHESTS OF DRAWERS (BUREAUX) AND DRESSING CHESTS (DRESSERS)
About 1890-1940
Nine-drawer oak chest designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, about 1902.
In modern American usage, a bureau is a chest of drawers; in Britain it is a slope-front desk. In the USA, a dresser is a dressing-table or dressing-chest with a mirror; in the UK it is a kitchen [...]
Tags: art moderne, brackets, bureaux, cedar, chest, chest of drawers, chests of drawers, DRAWERS, dresser, FRENCH, front desk, sideboard, veneer
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
French CHESTS AND CHESTS OF DRAWERS About 1890 to 1940
Macassar ebony chest of drawers, 1930s.
1890-1920: Sinuous art nouveau line lends itself to leggy items – tables, chairs – more readily than to carcase pieces. Leading practitioners (Majorelle, Galle) adapt bow-fronted types by framing within stem-like mouldings, placing them on swept plinths and decorating with stylized [...]
Tags: Art Deco, chest of drawers, Chests, commode, DRAWERS, DRAWING-ROOM, furniture, moulding, scandinavian pine
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
CHESTS: MULE, DOWER OR COUNTER CHESTS
About 1630-1800
Late-17thC oak mule chest.
Alidded chest with one or two drawers added below. A transitional piece in the 17thC, marking the change from simple chest to full chest of drawers; a country piece in the 18thC.
Thought by some to have been used by tradesmen; many have a small till or [...]
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
CHESTS ON STANDS
About 1680-1730
Many fashionable chests of drawers of this period were raised about 2 feet/60 cm from the ground on turned stands. By 1730 these seem to have been replaced by the more capacious tallboy. The information below
relates to the stands only; for details of the chest sections see under CHESTS OF DRAWERS: PANELLED [...]
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
CHESTS OF DRAWERS: EARLY PANELLED OAK
About 1650-1730
Oak chest of about 1680, with applied, mitred and geometrical mouldings.
Distinctive, often ornamental, pieces of furniture made by traditional methods. Still produced by provincial and country makers long after more sophisticated walnut-veneered chests were introduced from the Continent in about 1670.
Various combinations of single and double depth drawers, cupboard [...]
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
CHESTS OF DRAWERS: MAHOGANY
About 1730-1830
Mostly simple, undecorated pieces based on classical proportions and varying more in shape than detail or construction.
Many straight-fronted, others serpentine (often with canted corners) from about 17501800, or bow-fronted, about 1780 onwards. Three or four drawers of graduated depth.
Hepplewhite-style inlaid serpentine chest, about 1800, with ’swept’ feet.
After 1800 a pair of [...]
Tags: 1730 1830, brass, chest of drawers, Chests, chests of drawers, classical proportions, DRAWERS, ebony, figure, Hepplewhite-style, mahogany, moulding, ogee, secretaire, top drawer
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
ENGLISH CHESTS OF DRAWERS: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN
About 1840-1915
Huge numbers of very simple chests were produced, in a wide range of qualities; a few followed fashionable styles in their decoration. After about 1860 they often formed part of a suite -chest, wash-stand, wardrobe and chair.
Early-Victorian bow-fronted chest of drawers, still of Hepplewhite type, but with coarse-grained [...]
Tags: bun feet, chest of drawers, Chests, DRAWERS, dressing table, EDWARDIAN, furniture, Hepplewhite, honduras mahogany, mahogany, satinwood, value, veneers, VICTORIAN, walnut, wardrobe
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
English Bachelor Chests and Chests of Drawers
George I period walnut bachelor chest of drawers. Note evolution of a slightly later period in chests of drawers in the flat veneered carcase fronts and the drawers with cock-beading around the edges. Herring-bone or feather inlay in the drawers gives a cross banded effect. Size approx. 2′ 3″ [...]
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