Posts Tagged ‘oak’

MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE - MAHOGANY WING ARMCHAIR - HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD - BUREAU CABINET - TRIPOD TABLE - MAHOGANY PLATE CABINET

Friday, December 18th, 2009

MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE - MAHOGANY WING ARMCHAIR - HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD - BUREAU CABINET - TRIPOD TABLE - MAHOGANY PLATE CABINET
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE with a
rectangular top, three drawers in the shaped frieze and
chamfered legs, 2ft. high by 2ft. 6in. wide (70cm. by
76cm.) circa 1755.
A LATE GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARMCHAIR, the
serpentine toprail and [...]

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

Friday, December 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Antique English Oak and Walnut Dressers

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 [...]

Antique English Dressers

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 [...]

Antique Dressers with Space Below

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 [...]

Pine Dressers

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 [...]