Posts Tagged ‘decoration’
Friday, January 1st, 2010
French maple musical Etui Case, Queen Anne Bureau Bookcase, Victorian mahogany shoe Snuff Box, Victorian birds-eye maple Work Box
A Regency tortoiseshell veneered and ivory banded Tea Caddy, with silver-coloured metal monogram and stringing, the hinged cover revealing a pair of lidded divisions, on ball
feet, cm. wide. Ain.
A Regency tortoiseshell veneered Tea Caddy, with a shaped [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
AMERICAN CHESTS AND CHESTS OF DRAWERS
About 1600-1700
The box-like chest, serving as a crate or travelling trunk, is one of the few pieces of furniture brought with them by the Pilgrim Fathers. By 1660, panelled chests were being made with drawers below the box; their number increased until they occupied the whole space, and the top [...]
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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, October 25th, 2009
CHESTS early oak with moulded fronts
A less decorated example, illustrated with one lower door open to show the three drawers fitted in the lower part. Many of the mouldings and applied split balusters are made of fruit-wood which would originally have been ebonised. The piece is typically Anglo-Dutch and the ivory and pearl inlay, of [...]
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