Gothic to Renaissance
IT may be whimsical to suggest, as I have done in the antique firefighter pictures Introduction, that some pieces of furniture reflect the antique dining tables with d ends personalities of the arts and antiques weekly people who made them, but even if you dismiss that as too fanciful, it is certainly true [...]

It is known, was usually constructed of walnut or cypress, and carved in high relief, favourite subjects being the antique army knife swiss family coat-of-arms, foliage, figures representing the duncan phyfe design tables and chairs Christian saints of the antique ebay glassware pottery paging gods and goddesses of mythology, and—as the dantesca chair restless Baroque [...]

JACOBEAN CARVED OAK TESTER BED - JAMES I OAK TESTER BED - OAK COURT CUPBOARD - OAK CREDENCE TABLE - CHARLES I OAK REFECTORY TABLE - AN OAK COFFER
A JACOBEAN CARVED OAK TESTER BED, the cornice
carved with arcading, the tester with twelve scrolled and
carved panels, the headboard with a pair of arches filled
with and flanked [...]

CHARLES II OAK CRADLE - WALNUT ARMCHAIR - CHARLES II OVAL OAK GATELEG TABLE - FOUR CHARLES II BEECHWOOD ARMCHAIRS - BEECHWOOD SIDE CHAIR
A CHARLES I OAK CHEST, with a three-panelled
top, the front with three panels outlined with geometrie
mouldings and enclosed by lunettes carved with fleur-de-
lys, lft. Whin. high by 4ft. 3in. wide (57cm. by [...]

OAK AND ELM SETTLE - WILLIAM AND MARY OAK SIDE TABLE - GEORGE II OAK LOW CUPBOARD - GEORGE I OAK PRESS CUPBOARD - OAK WALL CUPBOARD
AN OAK AND ELM SETTLE, the rectangular back
carved with lunettes above three panels set with lozenges
with down-curved arms and baluster supports, the solid
plank seat on baluster legs joined by [...]

OAK CUPBOARD - OAK DRESSER - OAK CORNER CUPBOARD - GEORGE III OAK CHEST - OAK TALLBOY -  ELM CRICKET TABLE - OAK CHILD’S TABLE
A SMALL GEORGE II OAK CUPBOARD with cavetto
cornice and a pair of pendant finials, above a pair of
recessed doors with fielded ogee-shaped panels, the
slightly projecting lower part with a pair of [...]

GEORGE III OAK AND ELM DRESSER - GEORGE II OAK TRAVELLING CHEST OF DRAWERS - OAK SETTLE - GEORGE II OAK BUREAU - OAK AND ELM ARMCHAIR - OAK BUREAU BOOKCASE
AN EARLY GEORGE III OAK AND ELM DRESSER, the
rack with a moulded comice and three shelves, the
lower part with three frieze drawers above ogee-carved
aprons, on [...]

A WILLIAM AND MARY SMALL OAK CHEST - A WILLIAM AND MARY OAK SIDE TABLE - QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDE CHAIR - GEORGE II OAK LOW CUPBOARD
A WILLIAM AND MARY SMALL OAK CHEST of two
short and two long drawers with simple rectangular
fielded panels, 2ft.high by 2ft. wide (75cm.
by 77cm.) circa 1690.
AN OAK DRESSER, the upper [...]

AN OAK SETTLE - AN OAK GATELEG TABLE - JAMES II OAK DINING CHAIRS - CHARLES II OAK CUPBOARD - WILLIAM AND MARY OAK SIDE TABLE - WILLIAM III WALNUT SIDE TABLE
A CHARLES II OAK CHEST in two parts and with
four geometrically panelled drawers with ebonised
dividing and flanking mouldings, 3ft. high by 3ft. lin.
wide (92cm. [...]

A CHARLES II OAK GATELEG TABLE - A CHARLES II OAK CHEST - MID-17TH CENTURY FLEMISH OAK CUP-BOARD - CHARLES I OAK DRAW-LEAF DINING TABLE - CHARLES II OAK ARMCHAIR
A CHARLES II OAK COFFER with a two-plank
hinged top and three-panel front carved with lozenges,
on stile feet, lft.high by 3ft. Vhin. wide (59cm. by
95cm.) circa 1670.
A [...]