Archive for the ‘French Dressers’ Category

neoclassical mahogany bureau cabinet

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Usually the wooden knobs with mother of pearl inlay entire lower stage was supported on a low plinth and contained a secretaries drawer, cupboards, and drawers; the early american silver sauce boat upper stage, which was set back from the veneering in carolean period base, providing a long but narrow shelf at a convenient level [...]

17th Century French Louis XIII Furniture Style Reproductions

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

France.
Because France was a more united country at an earlier date, and because many of its kings—not to mention their queens and mistresses—took a keen interest in the victorian rose antiques.com art of furnishing and decor, it is not only possible but right and proper to classify its furniture according to the english regency style [...]

Antique Dutch Furniture

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The Netherlands
We have already noted that it was in the antique vintage salt pepper shakers swedish people Low Countries that framed construction for chests and tables was developed in the porcelain loosdrecht -ebay mid-sixteenth Century. There was a powerful tradition of native craftsmanship in the antique wedding veils Netherlands, dating back to the antique surveying [...]

Antique French Dressers

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

French Dressers
A fine Charles II period small antique French dresser, c.1670. The drawers illustrate the geometrical mouldings found on chests of the period  the swan-neck handles are a replacement and simple pear-drops or pulls would have been more likely. The legs show a fine example of Restoration turning with inverted cup and baluster forms. Although [...]