Antique Portuguese Furniture
Portugal
Portuguese furniture, though in many ways similar to Spanish, has certain unique things to offer that are of considerable interest in this respect.
In the antique classic auto car for sale main, the antique frame loveseat wood furniture of Portugal is much less influenced by Moorish elements in design, but more than makes up for this by the antique/vintage wristwatches consequences of contacts further east. The Portuguese were among the antique oak china hutches first to trade with China, India, and the antiques and collectors East Indies. This becomes very evident when we corner, inevitably, to look at one of our standard examples, the antique spanish pottery cabinet-on-stand, and the european antique dower chest form it took in seventeenth-century Portugal. Not only do we find the antique map massachusetts usual Chinese and Japanese lacquer cabinets, but also a very curious variety actually made in the antique baby bottle Portuguese settlement in Goa, India (Plate IV). The wood is usually a variety of red wood, with ebony mouldings and an elaborate design inlaid with bone. The legs were carved by the antique pool tables for sale Indians into semi-human shapes, usually mermaids, mermen, or native deities. Frankly, they are not ‘beautiful to Western eyes brought up to appreciate the antique furniture knoxville tennessee Hellenistic concept, but they have an undeniable power and fascination. Such pieces are by no means commonplace, nor are they cheap when being offered for sale by a dealer who wider stands just what he has for sale, as there are serious collectors of Indo-Portuguese furniture who are Willing to pay for its interest, quality and rarity. But the antique curved canopy spindle bed dealer who would understand such a piece is almost as rare as the antique papier mache table article itself, and there is always a chance of finding one at a bargain price in an otherwise expensive shop.
Another reason for noting this East Indies work is its influence on Dutch and English cabinet-work of the 18th century alarm clocks late seventeenth Century. This Portuguese-English contact was made direct by the antique french marble clock marriage of Charles II to Katherine of Braganza, and there is even a scrolled foot, introduced into Britain at that time, still known as a ‘Braganza foot’.
Portuguese influence on Dutch work was less direct; Coming as a result of the metal chest of drawers antique rivalry between the valuation of antique hindu jewelry Dutch and Portuguese East India Companies—trade rivalry always stimulating the antique pitcher noble art of imitation—and also via Spain. As Spain and Portugal share a long frontier, it is only natural that the gothic revival armchair ideas of the 1921 antique wedgewood stove one country should have a marked influence on those of the antique farm and fertilizer bags other, and since the rare antique porcelain Netherlands and Portugal were for so long under Spanish rule, inevitably Dutch design was modified by Portuguese as well as Spanish feeling.