Posts Tagged ‘drawers’
Friday, December 18th, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: 17th century, armchair, bobbin, bun feet, CARVED, CENTURY, CHAIR, CHARLES I OAK, charles ii, CHEST, coffer, CROMWELLIAN, cupboard, dining, dining table, DRAW-LEAF, drawers, flemish, frieze, GATELEG, gateleg table, GOOD, mouldings, oak chest, Restoration, side chair, UNUSUAL
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
“BIBLE” BOX ON STAND - OAK COFFER - 17TH CENTURY OAK COFFER - CHARLES II OAK WRITING BOX - CHARLES I OAK CHEST
A CARVED PEARWOOD WALL APPLIQUE in the style
of Grinling Gibbons and well carved with ribbon-tied
fruit and flowers, 3ft. 2lhin. high (98cm.) late 19th
Century, mounted on board.
A CHARLES II “BIBLE” BOX ON STAND, [...]
Tags: 17th century, 19th century, A CHARLES I OAK, APPLIQUE, APPLIQUES, baluster, CARVED, CENTURY, charles i, CHARLES I OAK, charles ii, CHEST, CHIMNEY, compartment, design, DESK, drawer, drawers, EARLY, Gothic, Grinling, grinling gibbons, HENRY VIII, oak bible, oak chest, pearwood, Restoration, Saint Sebastian, secret compartment, Sold, STAND, stretchers, table, table desk, WALL, wall appliques
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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 [...]
Tags: apron, cupboard, cupboard doors, drawer, drawer fronts, drawers, dresser, DRESSERS, French, fruitwood, price, Restoration
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
DRESSERS early sideboard type
An oak dresser of the second half of the seventeenth century, showing very thick boldly turned front legs and square back legs. Each of the four drawers is divided into two panels and the side is panelled as well. The top edge is heavily moulded and another moulding has been fixed along [...]
Tags: cabriole, cabriole legs, cherrywood, design, design feature, drawer, drawers, DRESSERS, leg, middle leg, moulding, seventeenth century, sideboard
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
DRESSERS space below
A magnificent and large example of an English oak dresser of four drawers, raised upon three frontal cabriole legs, united by finely pierced and shaped apron. The superstructure of shelves, containing two cupboards with fluted frontal stiles, containing doors with square fielded panels. The frontal edges to the shelves and the upright supporters [...]
Tags: Antique, apron, cabriole, cabriole legs, cornice, cupboard, cupboard doors, cupboards, decorative frieze, design, drawers, DRESSERS, English, inlaid, mahogany, moulding, oak, panel doors, panelled doors, pattern, shelves, side doors, wooden knobs
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
DRESSERS Pine
The pine dresser seems to be almost exclusively a Welsh product. Up to about 1840 the shelves were open, after that some parts were glazed until 1870, when totally glazed racks appeared. Pine became scarcertowards the end of the century so that back-boards became narrow; by the 1890s plywood panels came into use and [...]
Tags: 1890s, Collecting, cupboard, cupboard doors, drawers, dresser, DRESSERS, oak, oak dressers, Pine Dressers, wooden knobs
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