Posts Tagged ‘mirror’

VICTORIAN, EDWARDIAN FURNITURE, A Victorian rosewood Canterbury, A Victorian rosewood pedestal Table, Dwarf Bookcase

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

VICTORIAN, EDWARDIAN FURNITURE, A Victorian rosewood Canterbury, A Victorian rosewood pedestal Table, Dwarf Bookcase
A George Ill-style mahogany four-poster Bed, circa 1900, with key pattern cornice and damask-lined canopy, with twin receded baluster pillars and damask drapes, the box-spring
base with a feather mattress, on square lock feet and castors, 142cm. wide; 4ft. 8in.
A George Ill-style mahogany [...]

George IV gilt-framed convex Wall Mirror, George III carved walnut Armchair Frame, satinwood semi-circular Card Table

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

George IV gilt-framed convex Wall Mirror, George III carved walnut Armchair Frame, satinwood semi-circular Card Table
A George III small mahogany
Sideboard, circa 1800, with kingwood
banding and satinwood stringing, the
cutlery drawer above a tambour
cupboard flanked by a pair of deep
drawers, 90cm. high by 122cm. wide;
2ft. 11 !/2in. by 4ft.
A Regency mahogany four-tier Whatnot, circa 1810, with ring [...]

French maple musical Etui Case, Queen Anne Bureau Bookcase, Victorian mahogany shoe Snuff Box, Victorian birds-eye maple Work Box

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 [...]

Antique Dressing Chest, Military Chest and Wellington Chest

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 [...]

Oak Chests on Turned Stands

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

CHESTS  oak on turned stands,
1680-1730
Four moulded front and plain oak chests on stands, showing different forms of both drawer mouldings and stand turning.
It is nearly always the stand and rarely the chest which provides the problem of verification. Even in oak the weight of the chest proved too much for many of the relatively thin [...]