Posts Tagged ‘sideboard’

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

Friday, December 18th, 2009

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 [...]

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

Friday, December 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Antique Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and 1920`s Dressers

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Antique Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and 1920`s Dressers
The term ‘dresser’ comes from the side table used for the `dressing’ of food in the medieval hall. The form which was used in kitchens of the 17th and 18th centuries was still unchanged in the early 19th. Indeed
kitchen furniture, as a general rule, has been the least [...]

Antique Credenza

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

CREDENZAS
Victorian ebonised credenza, about 1870.
Aintheir name means sideboard in Italian, in Britain, credenzas were drawing-room rather than dining-room pieces, distinguished from chiffoniers and simpler side cabinets by their extensive decoration and their shaped (usually curving) outline. The best show strong French or Italian influence.
Generally a central, straight-fronted section with one or two panelled doors, flanked [...]

Antique Chiffoniers

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

CHIFFONIERS
A mahogany chiffonier with scrolled shelf supports. Several similar types appear in designs of this period. 1820-1830
A rosewood chiffonier with glazed door panels in gilt Gothic design frames. The shelf above is supported on ormolu pillars and has a gallery rail. There is a mirror at the back.
An elegant chiffonier with shelves above, brass latticed [...]

Antique English Victorian and Edwardian Dressers. Kitchen Dressers.

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

DRESSERS
About 1650-1915
Late-17thC dresser with applied geometric moulding.
At all times a respected piece of furniture in rural homes - good enough for use as a sideboard in the parlours of large farmhouses and manor houses, but found only in the kitchens of more sophisticated town and city dwellers. Tremendous regional variation; as a very general rule, [...]

Sideboard Type Dressers

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 [...]