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victorian antique china cabinet

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The introduction of the corner cupboard, 17th century, sotheby’s console, originally called a ‘clap’ table, dated from the wmf ikora lampe first years of the antique lamps with brass dogs century. Although of bracket construction, the antique earthenware terracotta dishes console was in form closely related to the antique white glazed dressers side table and had the longwy crackle glaze same decorative function when used in conjunction with a mirror and often a pair of stands. An eagle with outstretched wings was introduced as a support and, like the antique chinese table eagle design caprice of two intertwined dolphins, attained wide popularity. Apparently this variety of furniture rapidly became as much the black glass epergne fashion here as at Versailles.
Ornamental candle stands or tortures were, for the antique hanging corner cupboard most part, taller and more imposing than specimens of late seventeenth-century date, with twisted stems. In common with pedestal stands intended to support heavy candelabra, bronzes, or busts, the unrestored wood bookcase more fantastic of gilt trochees were distinguished by an ingenious fancy and, as with this whole class of furniture, by architectural detail. the lustreware spice set from france mahogany stand, fitted with gallery top and supported on a tripod base, was adopted towards 1740.
Both Vauxhall and Southward had for some years produced plates of mirror glass claimed to be without blemish and which were certainly of considerable size. In the antique chairs legs type and style Post Man for 1702, the antique figurines unglazed german claims of the antique table with hearts Bear Garden Glass House at Southward had somewhat exceeded those of their rivals at ‘the old Glasshouse at Fox all Vauxhall, known by the antique bed end table attached englis name of the antiquesilver salvers Duke of Buckingham’s House’. They sold ‘Looking-Glass Plates, Blown from the matt bance clock smallest size upwards, to 90 Inches, with proportion able breadth, of Lively Colours, free from Veins and foulness, incident to large Plates that have been hitherto sold’. Mirrors, also, exhibited marked architectural character, in many cases being intended to harmonize with, or to supplement, the bone inlay door windows of rooms. On occasion, details and moldings of the antique tables.ie mirror frame duplicated those of door, window, or cornice. Since the antique slide table glass was thin, it was a commendable achievement when plates of 6 feet and more in length and of ‘proportion able breadth’ were ground without breakage.
The suave lines of the sideboard palladio mirror frames of an earlier period became formalized. Broken, or alternatively swan-necked, pediments enclosed a central ornament of shell, mask, heraldic cartouche, or plinth, surmounting an entablature of classical form .The frieze was strongly marked; floral pendants, or similar ornament, edging the antique furniture rapid city south dakota sides, relieved the inlaid wood chippendale tilt top table severe lines of a plain oblong or square-cornered inner framing. Candle brackets were still attached to the antique furniture handles base. the frodsham mantel clocks neo-classical long pier glasses of the antic ceramic stamps period, purposed to hang between tall windows, were designed in corresponding style.
Similarly, large over mantel mirrors, with arched or serpentine headings, were superseded by those with plainer rectangular frame, or with square corners. Occasionally a sea- or land-scope in oil colors was framed with the harp-shaped mahogany table glass and formed the serpentine secretary cabinet upper portion of the vase rugs of khotan over mantel.
Reproductions of a small, simple, and comparatively inexpensive type of mahogany hanging mirror are to-day numerous; the antique lowback dressing table chair original examples of this lesser glass, designed usually with inner gilt framing and a fretted cresting, were in the antique kidney shaped metal dish main confined to the antique desks 19th century smee bedrooms. When of mahogany or walnut, and not of gesso, the victorian bronze and brass tea caddy moldings of the antique oak cabriole leg gateleg table secret compartment inner framing were of cross-grained veneer, either of half-round section or flat with molded edges. the early 1900’s fabric for couches shaped hood or cresting was either plain or relieved with gilding. Modern glass is comparatively thick and reveals a substantial image; old glass, spotted by age, and with shallow beveling, is distinctive.
A number of oval glasses were made in this period, as in the cast brass wall clock succeeding one, an elaborate cresting often centering in a mask form. the how to put a veneer inlay on an old table design was less rigid than in those oblong specimens.
Library tables of massive open pedestal form were inspired by French pieces in the antique high backed studded tapestry material period chair style of Louis XIV and were intended to stand in the antique wedding bands 1900s scrolled fillagree with diamonds centre of rooms. the antique english sideboards with paint inlay technique of Boulle and his followers was not attempted, although some of these mahogany tables bore lavish carved and gilt enrichments having the louis black floral dining chair appearance of ormolu mounts. This manner did hot persist much beyond c. 1740.
China cabinets and bookcases hitherto had been of good proportion and plain appearance. It is likely that they were’ interchangeable pieces, used according to the antique wood table with claws requirements of owners. In later mahogany specimens, the antique sofa in real simple flat veneered surface of the 17 century corner mahogany inlaid corner cabinet cabinet front was replaced by one with sunken panels and bolection moldings; their architectural character was emphasized by the antique latice work card tables free use of detail commonly found in stone or plaster - the j d fisher watches classical cornice, the antique gate leg table broken pediment, the importing antique furniture from france to japan capital or pilaster, and the antique marquetry chair types Greek key pattern. Certain massive bureau cabinets, in which prominence was given to the red maghoney toilet seats central compartment by a shallow recession of the small lacquar box with gold inlay flanking wings, provided a particularly suitable field for the antique french porcelain floral vase designer, and marked the pembroke table pivot top queen anne first stage in the georgian footstools development of large library bookcases.
William Kent and his circle endeavored to place furniture adapted from Venetian Baroque models in Palladian interiors of classical and formal character. They were successful in this difficult task, which was undertaken for men who were arbiters of taste. the edwardian mahogany secretary desk opulent gilt furniture, often of eccentric proportions, which was produced under their direction for a few great houses is, however, very different in character from most contemporary walnut and mahogany pieces.
THE earliest pattern books were produced by architects or builders, and contained comparatively few designs for furniture, although suggestions for the antique 8 leg hall table improvement and ornamentation of the victorian antique china cabinet curved glass beveled leaded glass lion paw interiors of houses were included and we find designs for chimney-pieces, for the lucie attwell carrying a postbag with english script in front postcards decoration of the royal staffordshire ceramics antics floors with parquetry, and for such furniture as allowed an architectural treatment.

Gothic Furniture Original and Reproduction

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The term ‘Gothic’ is a misleading one, in that it really has little to do with the antique diamond flower ring German tribes who tended to over-run much of Europe following the antique bach music books collapse of the staffordshire potteries ltd ironstone Roman Empire. The Goths reached the antique brass candelabra zenith of their power in Spain, in the sheraton antique desks 1800 sixth Century. By the french style ornate headboards kent beginning of the antique victorian 16×20 picture frame eighth, that power had been destroyed. What is called ‘Gothic’ art and architecture did not begin until the antique car hood ornaments twelfth Century. It originated in France and flourished throughout Europe for the antique hinged boxes best part of four hundred years. The confusion seems to have been started by a pupil of Michelangelo who wanted to be as offensive as possible about the antique ophthalmoscope buildings erected in the antique weapon step Middle Ages, and attributed them to the chaise settee sofa with bronze frame Goths who, so far as his native Italy was concerned, had never been more or less than a bunch of savage marauders.
Michelangelo’s bright-eyed boy was concerned with praising what was then the antique german gun new movement in architecture, which we call the antique brass sink Renaissance, and the cantique de noel classical forms on which it was based, at the high back carver with pierced splat, curved arm expense of the antique bracelet white gold merely old-fashioned. This is a little trick still beloved by exponents of most new art forms. Quite often, it works, and it worked then. It was not until the adam antique gilt mirror eighteenth Century that enthusiasts like Horace Walpole began to re-discover the antique dominoes beauty of Gothic work, and even then their enthusiasm tended to become misplaced—but that can wait until we come to review its consequences.
For the antique vanity makers moment, all that matters is that ‘Gothic’ is an inaccurate but useful term, first meant as one of abuse, but now used to embrace that splendid, soaring, decorated style of building that most of us associate with cathedrals having pointed archways and rose Windows.
Much of the sabre leg chair furniture that survives from the leduc west antique society Middle Ages —and there really isn’t a great deal—shows the antique victorian toys Gothic influence in a marked way. No doubt this is partly because it is in churches that early pieces have been best preserved from the antique cut glass punch bowl ravages of war, everyday use, smoke and heat from the fabric antique hearth, drunken husbands, fashion-conscious wives, destructive children, brokers’ men, cigarette ends, spilled drinks, amateur restorers and all the antique cadillac for sale other dangers that threaten domestic furniture. (When you take them all into account, it’s astonishing that there is any antique furniture.) Add to this the late 19th century swivel top library table fact that, until about 1500, there wasn’t much domestic furniture anyway, life being too insecure to make its accumulation worthwhile, and it will be seen that ecclesiastic pieces offer the how to restore antique picture frames best, and almost the ming porcelain only, scope for study. The chances are, however, that anything really worth calling domestic furniture at all followed fairly closely the antique show nyc pattern set by the wooden horse antique churches. (Plate I).
Like the bookcases with legs buildings, Gothic furniture was solidly constructed and richly decorated—not only by elaborate carving but with painting in primary colours, and gilding. What are now dignified, sombre pieces of oak must once have presented a positive carnival of colour.
Favourite motifs of the antique china dealers in houston Gothic wood-carvers were foliage and flowers, with an occasional grotesque monster, within geometric-ally contrived Spaces formed by setting a circle in a pointed arch. Perhaps the fluted antique china cabinet most characteristic feature of the antique norelco radios.com period, both for the antique political buttons panelling of rooms and for furniture, was the typical knobs on mid victorian writing desks ‘linen fold’ treatment of flat surfaces, as we now call it, though originally this formal, carved decoration was probably meant to represent scrolls of parchment .
It really became possible to use it, extensively, only after a revolutionary advance in construction. Until about 1400, joinery had consisted of pegging or nailing solid boards to one another in the pink and white japanese flower pottery simplest manner, which we call ‘plank construction’. Shortly after that date, some unknown, enterprising Dutchman invented framed construction, whereby a panel of wood was loosely set in a framework of thicker timber, the antique children’s books loose fit allowing a margin of safety that reduced the japanese black lacquer shaped writing desks risk of splitting if the antique china dealer pressure rs timber should warp or shrink unequally. The relative thinness of the antique american pottery panel also helped to make furniture lighter in weight. All this required craftsmanship of a much higher order than had previously been needed, as plank construction had involved little
more than pinning or nailing the antiquebottles.net end, say, of a chest to the antique dressers with mirrors new england furniture 1925 boards that comprised its front, whereas the antique motorcycle photo horizontals of the antique fencing foil frame construction had to be joined to the rose bros antique iron lamp uprights, or ’stiles’, by means of a tendon, or tongue, Opting into a mortise, or cavity. Women readers and others who get dispirited when presented with mild technical of this sort had better take and then forget the disk music box antique german cylinder whole thing. As it happens to be one of the lalique collectors plate issue price most important constructional developments in the antiqued mirror squares history of furniture.
The old, crude method was not, of course, abandoned at once, and though craftsmen all over Europe were fairly quick to follow the french style chest of drawers with legs lead of the antique milk jug Low Countries and build furniture according to the antique day market three new principle, in outlying places where traditions always linger on, chests, especially, continued to be made in the antique power product engine outmoded way. You are quite likely to come across a specimen of plank construction in the antique watch repairs form of a chest made of ash, elm or oak, and the antique texas maps smaller ones, being only three feet or so in length, have a natural place in the antique motorbikes country cottage; but do not assume that you have necessarily discovered a fourteenth-century primitive, just because it boasts plank construction. I don’t mean that it may be a fake; although that is always possible, it is unlikely in this case, as simple chests are too commonplace for a good fake to be really profitable. But there is a very good chance that it may have been made in some remote, conservative spot, perhaps as late as 1600 or even later.
In fact, there is not much furniture earlier than, say, 1550 to be found outside churches and museums, and in England, at least, there has, for some years past, been only a limited interest in really early pieces. Before the antique butterfly First World War, there were far more serious collectors of old oak than there are today, and for the antique catholic bible larger pieces especially, prices were higher than they are now. On the antique danbury connecticut continent of Europe, the 19th century carved oak dresser situation is rather different. The Dutch and the antique ladies watches Belgians are now systematically buying every interesting early piece they can find, and while the bureau cabinet painted English, French, and American buyers concentrate on eighteenth and early nineteenth Century elegance, Holland and Belgium are quietly investing in the antique christmas pictures work of the antique window locks more remote periods. As it was the modern trestle table leaf Low Countries that developed much of it in the antique hand painted plate first place, there is a certain poetic justice in the antique golf gift process. ‘Cup-and-Cover’ Shapes in Silver and Wood England, late sixteenth Century.
A. Silver standing cup-and-cover.
B. Silver-shape applied to turning a table-leg.
C. The same form applied to a bed-post.
This is the 7up antique bottle type of table popularly known as ‘refectory’, but in fact the alabama antique map monasteries had taken a bad knock some years before, from Henry VIII, and most of the side by side bookcase with hairy paw feet tables of the antique platinum jewelry kind that survive did not furnish the antique poster leg dining table refectories of the antique restoration and refinishing monks at all, but the antique wedding house mesa rooms of rich merchants.
It was this type of four-legged table which the antique garnet flowered Dutch adapted so that it should take up less Space when not in use as a dining-table. The frame remained fixed, the berkey and gay harp table legs being tied top and bottom by rails. The top had nearly always been made so that it could be lifted off, and the roundtop texas antiques method now adopted was to fit under it, at each end, an extension that would slide out and be supported on bearers, the large reproduction antique mirror main table-top dropping automatically into position between them. There is really no point in giving an elaborate account of this mechanism, as millions of modem draw-leaf tables are still being constructed on exactly the antique flags for sale same principle; indeed, most of the large armoire wardrobe scandinavian 3 doors antique gadgetry to be found in present-day design was first thought of a long time ago.
For example, among the tallahassee antique car many treasures that were yielded up by the renningers antique fair tomb of Tutankhamen was a very useful bed that folded into three sections. A form of springing was provided by inter-laced cords or thongs, and the antique coke items feet were of the antique auto car insurance kind we call with us in the bronze plaque footboard eighteenth Century and still a firm favourite.
In the 19th century french antique porcelain figure middle Ages, people slept in bunks of one kind and another, built into the collecting antique books walls of the antique ivory geisha statue great halls and curtained off to give some degree of privacy. This principle of treating a bed as a sort of room-within-a-room persisted, in most countries, for centuries, in varying forms of tester and half-tester beds. The Italians had a type without any kind of canopy as early as the for antique cars sixteenth Century, but continued to employ the louis 14th antique half-tester as well. In Britain, the tiffany lamps antiques four-poster dominated sleeping arrangements for about half a millennium. The earlier version was a crude, wooden construction that relied for its effect on rich hangings that were highly valued, but from late Tudor times onwards, the antique furniture monmouth new jersey woodwork itself was often exposed and given decorative treatment by means of turning and carving. The posts of Elizabethan beds strongly resemble the antique auction in ohio legs of the dating age antique furniture tables described above, having cup-and-cover turnings, surmounted by capitals inspired by those of classical columns .
This sort of treatment signifies a very important change from the unfinished corner cupboard Gothic style. It was the antique kerosene lamp parts outcome of the michael keene antiques Renaissance in Italy, filtering northward. English furniture at the antique sideboard philadelphia end of the victoria chinaczechoslovakia sixteenth Century was still largely Gothic in feeling, with overtones of the antique brass screws Renaissance foisting themselves on to the fabric covered antique chest native tradition in a rather brash way that suited the repairing antique allis chalmer tractors new-rich dement in Elizabethan England very well. Few of us, buying for our own homes, are likely to encounter anything much earlier, and rather than devote more space to an academia discussion of the antique changing table white few other types of article that existed in the antique doll purse sixteenth Century home, I would prefer to consider the antique warehouse vancouver forms they took in the brass corners for wooden frames next age, which has much to offer that is of practical value to the 1945 antique restoration since homemaker—even the fruitwood keyhole desks impecunious one.

MAHOGANY TEA OR GAMES TABLE - SATINWOOD SIDE TABLE - GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA - MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE - MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

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MAHOGANY TEA OR GAMES TABLE - SATINWOOD SIDE TABLE - GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA - MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE - MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS

A GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR MAHOGANY CARD
TABLE, the top crossbanded in satinwood and kingwood,
the frieze inlaid with stringing and raised on square
tapering legs with later castors, 3fi. wide (92cm.) circa
1785.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TEA OR GAMES TABLE,
the rectangular top on square tapering legs headed by
oak sprig paterae, 2ft. 4′/2in. high by 2ft. wide
(72cm. by 90cm.) circa 1790.

A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY TWO-PEDESTAL DINING TABLE,
the rectangular top with rounded corners and two extra
leaves, raised on two bee-hive columns each with four sabre legs,
8ft. 9in. long by 3ft. Hin. zoide (267cm. by 120cm.)
early 19th Century, the underframe of top rebuilt.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TABLE
with an oval top and Square tapering legs, 2ft. 5in.
high by 3ft. 7in. wide (74cm. by 108cm.) circa 1790, formed from the end sections of a dining
table now fixed together.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TEA OR GAMES TABLE
with semi-circular top, on square tapering legs headed
by shell paterae, 2ft. 5in. high by 3ft. l’/zin. wide (73cm.
by 95cm.) circa 1790, possibly American.

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD SIDE TABLE, the semi-
circular top banded in yew-wood and tulipwood and the
similarly banded frieze raised on square tapering legs
headed by oval flowerhead paterae, 2ft. 8in. high by 3ft.
wide (81.5cm. by 91.5cm.) circa 1785, top now painted with
a flower-draped urn.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SOFA
with upholstered back and arms and loose-cushion
seat raised on reeded tapering legs, 4ft. 2in. wide (127cm.) circa 1800.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD of semi-
circular shape, with a shallow drawer flanked at each
side by a deep drawer and then a cupboard, raised on
tapering legs of lozenge section, 3ft. high by 6ft. wide
(91cm. by 183cm.) circa 1790.

A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY CANTERBURY, with
three slatted divisions, a drawer below and turned legs,
lft. lOin. high by lft. 9in. wide (56cm. by 53.5cm.) early
19th Century.

A SET OF FOUR MAHOGANY QUARTETTO TABLES
crossbanded in mahogany, with rectangular tops, turned
supports and trestle feet, 2ft. 6in. high (76cm.) first half
19th Century.

A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE with
coromandel-wood crossbanding and two drawers in the
frieze, on a semi-circular support and ringed stem with
downcurved sabre legs and brass castors,  5in. high by
5ft. 4in. wide (74cm. by 163cm.).

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR,
the D-shaped superstructure containing two drawers
flanked by a cupboard on each side, with a hinged leather-lined writing surface, a
drawer in the frieze and moulded legs, 3ft. l’/zin.
high by 2ft. lVhin. (95cm. by 90.5cm.) late 18th/early
19th Century, possibly American.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST, with a
rectangular flush reeded top above two short and two
long drawers, on splay bracket feet, 3ft. high by 2ft. lOin.
wide (91.5cm. by 88cm.) circa 1800.

A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE
BOOKCASE, the shaped cornice with three groups of
bullet-like mouldings above a pair of doors with lancet
glazing bars enclosing adjustable shelves, with a fitted
secretaire drawer above three long drawers and splayed
bracket feet, 8ft. lin. high by 3ft. wide (216cm. by
115cm.) circa 1800, restored.

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE CHAIRS,
with turned toprails above a rectangular panel and
carved scroll crossbars centred by paterae, the stuffed
seats on turned tapering legs, circa 1800.

A REGENCY GILTWOOD CONVEX MIRROR, the
moulded frame set with balls and surmounted by an
eagle with outspread wings, lft. high by lft. 5in.
diam. (60cm. by 43cm.) circa 1805.

A GEORGE III D-SHAPED MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
with a central frieze drawer flanked by two short drawers
on one side and a bottle drawer on the other, panelled to
resemble two drawers, on square tapering legs ending in
block feet, possibly reduced in height, 2ft. high by
7ft. wide (86cm. by 210cm.) circa 1800.

A REGENCY GILTWOOD PIER GLASS in matt and
burnished gilt, the rectangular plate with three-sided
cluster-column border, the top two corners set with a
patera, 5ft. lin. high by 3ft. 8in. wide (155cm. by 112cm.)
circa 1805.

A LATE GEORGE III SOLID WALNUT CORNER CUP-BOARD
in two parts and each with a pair of doors with two panels,
the cornice set with small ebonised balls, 7ft. 6in. high by 4ft.
wide (228cm. by 122cm.) circa 1800.

A REGENCY WINDOW SEAT,
the X-frame moulded, set with paterae and decorated
in black and gilt, the upholstered seat with scrolled ends,
damaged, 2ft. 4′/2in. high by 4ft. wide
(72.5cm. by 122cm.) circa 1810.

PINE CORNER CUPBOARD - GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHAIRS - MAHOGANY SMALL DRUM-TOP TABLE - ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLE - MARQUETRY WRITING-CABINET

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PINE CORNER CUPBOARD - GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHAIRS - MAHOGANY SMALL DRUM-TOP TABLE - ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLE - MARQUETRY WRITING-CABINET

A GEORGE III PINE CORNER CUPBOARD
with moulded cornice and three shelves with
shaped fronts above a pair of doors with fielded panels,
8ft. 7in. high by 4ft. 2in. wide
(262cm. by 127cm.) circa 1800.

A SET OF FIVE REGENCY MAHOGANY ARMCHAIRS,
including an Armchair, each with curved panelled
toprail and crossbars, the moulded arms on turned
Supports and the stuffed seats on moulded sabre legs,
circa 1810.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE,
the rectangular top with rounded corners raised on a
turned column, with pad feet, 2ft. 3′/2in.
high by lft. 9in. wide (70cm. by 53cm.)
late 18th/early 19th Century.

A REGENCY MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
of bowed breakfront form, with a central drawer
flanked by dummy drawers and raised on six tapering
ringed legs, the front four headed by

rectangular paterae, 3ft. high by 7ft.
2′/2in. wide (92cm. by 219cm.) circa 1810.

A SET OF FOURTEEN GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CHAIRS
including a pair of Armchairs, the lyre-shaped backs
with five “string” splats, downcurved arm supports
with turned pillars and the stuffed seats on cabriole legs,
circa 1820, probably Irish.

A WILLIAM IV CELLARET of sarcophagus
form, the slightly tapering body faced with two pairs of
reeded panels, on lion-paw feet, lft. Hin. high by 2ft.
wide (58cm. by 68cm.) circa 1825.

A REGENCY GRAINED ROSEWOOD SECRETAIRE
FIRESCREEN, with a fitted secretaire drawer, raised on a
pair of ringed pillars with a rising firescreen panel and
elegant down-curved legs, 3ft. 2′/2in. high by lft. 8in.
wide (98cm. by 51cm.) circa 1815.

A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD-VENEERED
DINING TABLE, the circular top with broad crossbanding
inlaid with a band of cut-brass flowers on a concave
triangular pillar, a platform and three sabre legs with
foliate brass mounts, 2ft. 5′/2in. high by 4ft. 6in. diam.
(75cm. by 137cm.) circa 1825.

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SMALL DRUM-TOP TABLE,
the circular top with a heavy gadrooned border, with one
real and three dummy drawers in the frieze, raised on a
turned column and concave-sided triangular plinth with
paw feet, 2ft. 4in high by 2ft. wide (71cm. by 61cm.) circa
1820.

A SET OF six GEORGE IV EBONISED CHAIRS,
with caned seats, the turned toprails with two matching
crossbars and the turned legs with matching front stretcher, and ail set with
brass rings, circa 1825.

A REGENCY MAHOGANY PEDESTAL PEMBROKE
TABLE, the rectangular top with rounded corners and a
moulded edge with a frieze drawer at each end, on a
ringed pillar with four reeded canted downcurved legs,
2ft. ll’Mn. long by 3ft. open (90cm. by 105cm.) circa
1820.

A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY DAVENPORT with three-
quarters brass-galleried superstructure with mirrored
back on scroll supports, the leather-lined writing slope
containing a bank of drawers, one with release
mechanism for the pen drawer at the side above a
panelled door containing four drawers, on carved
tapered column supports, and castors, 3ft. 4in. high by
2ft. wide (102cm. by 61cm.) circa 1835.

A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLE,
the circular top with a brass band and wide elmwood border,
the hexagonal baluster stem faced with brass mounts, the concave-sided
triangular plinth inlaid with stars and raised on cup-shaped
feet, 2ft. 5in. high by 4ft. 2in. diameter (73cm. by 127cm.)
circa 1825, possibly Irish.

WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD CHIFFONIER,
the galleried superstructure above a pair of arched
cup-boards, the sides with two star-veneered panels,
doors with a brass trellis, on a
stepped plinth, 4ft. high by 4ft.wide (122cm. by 123cm.)
circa 1830.

AN IRISH MARQUETRY WRITING-CABINET,
the upper part with a moulded frieze above a pair
of glazed doors with Gothic bars, enclosing an
arrangement of drawers centred on a
cupboard and flanked by two scroll pilaster strips
inlaid in boxwood, the lower part with a fitted
writing drawer above a pair of arched cupboard doors set with oval panels of
marquetry, flanked by two projecting pilasters, on
block feet, 4ft. 9in. high by 3ft. wide (145cm. by 91.5cm.)
circa 1820, probably Killarney.

96 A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD BERGERE,
the curved stuffed spade-shaped back continuing into
the arms with moulded U-shaped arm supports continuing
into the seatrail with circular tapering lotus-leaf legs, circa 1830.

A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD BREAKFRONT SIDE CABINET
with a white marble top above a frieze set with ormolu
moulding and bulbous rosettes with a central pair of glazed cupboard
doors, fianked by cupboards enclosing adjustable shelves,
on Hon paw feet, 2ft. 7in. high by 4ft. 4in. wide (84cm. by 137cm.) circa 1830.

MAHOGANY DINING CHAIR - MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD - MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE - MAHOGANY TOILET TABLE - COMMODE ARMCHAIR

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MAHOGANY DINING CHAIR - MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD - MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE - MAHOGANY TOILET TABLE - COMMODE ARMCHAIR

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WINE COOLER OR
JARDINIERE, with oval, lead-lined, brass-bound body, the
conforming stand with square tapering legs, 2ft. Vhin.
high (65cm.) circa 1775.

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING
CHAIRS including a pair of Armchairs with arched
toprails, pierced waisted splats, stuffed drop-in seats and
square tapering legs, circa 1780.

A SET OF FIVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHAIRS,
each with arched back, pierced balloon splat,
stuffed drop-in seat and square tapering legs,
circa 1775.

A GEORGE III BREAKFRONT MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD,
with crossbanded top, the bow-fronted centre with a
drawer above an arch, with two drawers on the left and a
zinc-lined bottle drawer on the right, on square tapering
legs, 5ft. 3in. wide (160cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD, the bow-front
containing one shallow and two deep drawers, on square
tapering legs, 2ft. 9in. high by 4ft. V2in. wide (84cm. by 123cm.) circa
1780, reduced in width.

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY STAND, the rectangular
top with a low gallery, raised on four slender square
tapering legs joined by an X-stretcher, 2ft. 5in. high
(74cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE
with a dentil cornice above a pair of fifteen-panel
glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves and with four
small drawers, the lower

part with a well fitted interior above two short
and three long drawers, on bracket feet, 7ft. 9in.
high by 3ft. lOin. wide (236cm. by 117cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD-VENEERED TOILET
TABLE banded in purpleheart, the divided hinged top
enclosing a mirror and lidded compartments, on square
tapering legs with castors, 2ft. 8in. high by 2ft. lin. wide
(81cm. by 63cm.) circa 1780.

A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GESSO
WALL-LIGHTS, the oval mirror back-plates surmounted
by urn and leaf-scroll crestings, the similar aprons each
supporting four candlebranches, 3ft. 3in. high (99cm.)
circa 1780.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TOILET TABLE, the
divided hinged top enclosing lidded compartments and a
mirror with a pair of drawers flanking a later arch, the
square tapering legs joined by a concave-fronted
platform and ending in castors, 2ft. 8l/2in. by 2ft. 4′/2in.
(82cm. by 72cm.) circa 1780.

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY POLE SCREENS,
each with a shield-shaped banner, a baluster stem
and down-curved tripod legs, 5ft. high (153cm.) circa 1790.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SEMI-CIRCULAR CARD
TABLE with a leather-lined top and square tapering legs,
3ft. wide (91cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III SATINWOOD POLE SCREEN
crossbanded in purpleheart, the shield-shaped banner with a
Bartolozzi engraving of The Gate of Heaven, with an urn pillar and three

down-curved legs joined by a circular stretcher,
4ft. high (152cm.) circa 1795.

A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING
CHAIRS including a pair of Armchairs, with serpentine
toprails and pierced vase-shaped splats, the armchairs
with outcurved arms and scrolling supports, with drop-
in seats and square moulded legs joined by stretchers,
circa 1780.

A GEORGE III BOWFRONT MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD,
the top crossbanded in tulipwood and with an arrange-
ment of seven drawers around an arch, on six square
tapering legs with castors, 2ft. lOin. high by 4ft. wide
(87cm. by 122cm.) circa 1780, inlay later and drawers
possibly re-modelled.

A SET OF FIVE GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING
CHAIRS, each with a serpentine toprail and pierced
balloon splat, the drop-in seat on square tapering legs,
circa 1785.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY COMMODE ARMCHAIR
with arched back, pierced husk-carved splat, stuffed
drop-in seat, deep apron and turned front legs, circa
1780.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIR, the
arched back with four leaf-capped reeded stick splats,
with stuffed drop-in seat, on square tapering front legs,
circa 1785.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD,
the bow front with two doors, 3ft. 8in. high by 2ft.
5in. wide (112cm. by 74cm.) circa 1780.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE with a semi-
circular top and square tapering legs, 2ft. 8in. high by 5ft.
4in. wide (81cm. by 163cm.) circa 1780.