Archive for the ‘Bureau Bookcases’ Category

art nouveau antique tray mother of pearl inlay, serpentine oak display cabinet

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Probably the antique claw candlestick result shows furniture in Penshurst Place, which
were introduced one p.m. stuks that there are two small chairs
the fb3r file cabinet lock original pads, others have recently re-covered by Mr. de la Isla
and Dudley. Backup time two chairs of ivory: the 19th century antique watches
sculpture, which is solid ebony, is much [...]

the louis xv antique gold coffee tables, vintage cabinet, regency sofa table

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

About 1500 various linen fold patterns were used singly and in combination with such Renaissance motifs as heads within medallions, also introduced via Flanders.
Some extant examples bear traces of their original paint. Bright colors, as vermilion or green or olive, were favored.
The paneled framing of chest fronts (or of cupboard doors) did not become general [...]

BUREAUX AND BUREAUX CABINETS

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

DESKS: BUREAUX AND BUREAUX CABINETS
About 1690-1740
Walnut veneered two-part bureau, about 1700.
Acombination of the bureau on stand and the escritoire, having an upper desk section with a fitted interior mounted on a chest of drawers; can have a cabinet above with further interior fittings for ledgers, papers,
Initially made in two sections with applied ‘waist’ moulding around [...]

Antique English Bureau Bookcase

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

English Bureau Bookcase
A Queen Anne walnut bureau bookcase of the slender ’single width’ type with simple bookcase above. There is a chamfered edge period glass mirror in the door. The bureau section exhibits all the characteristics of ordinary bureaux of the period - herring-bone inlays and cross banding, drawer edge mouldings and stepped interior. The [...]