Posts Tagged ‘English’
Friday, December 18th, 2009
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 [...]
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Antique English Dressers - Charles II period small oak dresser - 17th Century oak dresser - fruitwood dresser of the early 18th century on cabriole legs - English country dresser - oak dresser with upper shelves and single cupboard door - Queen Anne mahogany cupboarded oak dresser with drawers
The demarcation between antique cupboards and [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
English Dresser
In the late sixteenth century, while wealthy households separated their dining rooms from the large hall and displayed their fine plate and porcelain on impressive court cupboards in their parlours, yeomen farmers moved to brick-built farmhouses with fewer rooms and servants. In their parlours were ’side boordes’ - long shallow tables with a single [...]
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
DRESSERS with shelves, and tridarns
It may seem odd to start a section on dressers with shelves by discussing tridarns, but they are closely linked both in their Welsh origin and in the possibility that the court (short) cupboard had a third layer
superimposed on top purely for display and that this proved so popular that the [...]
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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 [...]
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