Stools, both of mahogany and of painted wood with bronzed enrichments, were frequently provided with legs of animal form. An X-frame construction was quite usual; and the mid century mirrors made of mercury? seat was placed either at the mahogany wash stnads of 1790s crossing of the berlin porcelain factory 1764 members which were then [...]

DESKS  davenports
The davenport desk has been associated with the Victorian period for so long that it seems strange to conjecture that its popularity was possibly in decline by the 1880s. The name comes from Gillow’s Cost Books of the 1790s  ‘Captain Davenport, a desk’ written alongside the design. So the davenport was initially a Georgian [...]

DESKS: DAVENPORT
Regency rosewood Davenport desk with swivel top.
Antique davenport desk produced in 18th century 1795-1885 small free-standing writing-desk made in large numbers and with many variations through the 19thC. The name derives from an entry in the 1790s cost books of Gillow in Lancaster - ‘For Capt. Davenport, a desk’- alongside a design for a [...]