Archive for the ‘Antique Credenza’ Category

Barique and Rococo Chairs

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Baroque to Rococo
I have digressed a little from the antique automobile chrysler matter in hand because this principle is rapidly becoming a vital one so far as French furniture is concerned, and I want to make it clear that I am not making a special exception of it. The rules of collecting, such as they [...]

Antique Credenza

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

CREDENZAS
Victorian ebonised credenza, about 1870.
Aintheir name means sideboard in Italian, in Britain, credenzas were drawing-room rather than dining-room pieces, distinguished from chiffoniers and simpler side cabinets by their extensive decoration and their shaped (usually curving) outline. The best show strong French or Italian influence.
Generally a central, straight-fronted section with one or two panelled doors, flanked [...]