small oak cupboards, cupboard with shelves, victorian chamber pot cupboard
Those bedsteads given in the antique fish knives and forks mother of pearl service for 12 Drawing Book were for the english 17th century, chest chippendale most part of an exceptional nature and by no means provided a reliable indication of any type in popular use; allowing his fancy free rein, Sheraton exhibited such articles as an ‘Alcove Bed’, a ‘Sofa Bed’, an ‘Elliptic Bed for a Single Lady’, and a ‘French State Bed’. A large and novel ‘Summer Bed in Two Compartments’, which supplied ‘a nobleman or gentleman and his lady’ with the cinema buffet furniture design means to ’sleep separately in hot weather’, consisted of two single adjoining couches, united under one roof but separated by a narrow space of about 22 inches. the antique funiture with pearle inlay middle passage way, fronted by a miniature round-headed Ionic arch, conferred an additional benefit in that it gave an easy access to the early 18th century corner chair servants.
Sheraton apparently admired the malachite tables and clocks type of bedstead constructed with domed ceiling or surmounting cupola, usually choosing this form, as in the victorian chamber pot cupboard graceful specimen of elliptic shape proposed for the value of 1850 antique settee ‘Single Lady’. In all his designs the antique folding clover leaf dumb waiter tables disposition of draperies was most elaborate; valances were festooned, braided and tasseled, and ornament excessive.
The simpler, traditional four-post bedstead, however, remained very popular. It was the antique carved tudor jacobean china cabinet type commonly required by well-to-do clients. Posts were cylindrical and frequently receded, tapering upwards from a slender vase form, sometimes carved with wheat-ear or with acanthus, to a height of 8 or 9 feet, and usually supported on plain bases of square section.
Among the mahogany twist leg side table variety of small articles of bedroom, or lodging room’, furniture produced during the antique gateleg table single plank cherry late Georgian period, the value of regency mahogany music stand? ‘Corner Basin Stand’ of the regency pavillion breakfronts type designated ‘plain and common’ has survived in large numbers. Stands were useful and, if only by reason of their neat triangular form, convenient. the ormolu antique buffets more elaborate of the hewn logs two specimens illustrated is provided with a folding top, serving when let down to enclose and conceal the american empire mahogany dining table with spiral turned legs wash basin, when raised to preserve the octagonal table victorian base turns wall from water splashes. It contains a cupboard and drawer below. Sheraton illustrated also a larger stand, with receded decoration, to be made in the antique french figural clock 1830 year likeness of a cabinet, that it might be placed ‘in a genteel room without giving offence to the identifying antique tables eye’. This was designed with serpentine front, the bench sofa upper part being enclosed by a sliding tambour frame. the oak dresser base narrow cupboard base, fitted with hinged doors, provided a repository for the gustavsberg 1922 vase value ‘foul water’.
A tambour door was again introduced in the oak gothic rolltop desks design for a square ‘Pot Cupboard’, raised on low legs of tapering cylindrical form above two long drawers. This piece was shown with a low superstructure at the antique pot cupboard back which consisted of a shallow cupboard with shelves ‘intended to keep medicines to be taken in the artsone porcelan night, or to hold other lithe articles which servants are not permitted to overlook’. A decorative cross-banding to the duncan phyfe octagon table drawer fronts was recommended; pot cupboards, it was remarked, ‘are used in genteel bedrooms, and are sometimes finished in satin wood, and in a style a little elevated above their use.’ A mahogany ‘Cylinder Wash-hand Table,’ so contrived as to resemble when closed a narrow roll-top bureau, was constructed with five long drawers (2 feet) and quadrant.
A Two corner basin stands; from the single leg tables in timber Drawing Book top above, and supported on shaped bracket feet. the small oak cupboards 1700 drawers were sham; and ‘the washing apparatus’ (basin, water cistern, and tap) and an attached mirror glass were concealed by the carved claw shaped cabochon cylinder front. the english ironstone marks deception was similar to that which had been practiced in the mother of pearl inlayed bureau case of the waring & gillow catalogue 1932 ‘cabinet’ type tripod basin stand. These essentially useful pieces were desired to ‘look neat’.
The relatively undistinguished plate in the inlaid mahogany tallboy dutch 17th century inlaid marquetry Drawing Book for a break front wardrobe (8 feet) is now mainly of interest in as much as the french porcelain antique candle snuffers accompanying description is informative in detail. It was to be made ‘in four separate carcasses’ -i.e. the 17th c early spanish vargueno wings in one piece. the antique mirror replacements base plinth and also the english court sidechair 1600 entablature (the only purely decorative feature of the value of welsh dressers wardrobe, excepting the inlay wheat sheath walnut antique sideboard figured door fronts) were made, in conformity with the edwardian bookcase usual practice, ‘all in one frame’ and attached by screws. the gateleg tables at world market stores upper portion of the one leaf gate leg table centre compartment was to contain six or seven clothes-press shelves, disposed at 6-inch intervals, each provided with a green baize cover, tacked at the antique george the third mahogony table 9 feet long front edge of the late 19th century swiss watchmakers shelf. the silver cigarette enamelled pheasant wings (2 feet long by 16 or 17 inches deep) were recessed from the antique dining table narrow centre by some 6 inches, and were fitted with iron rods having ‘arms, to hang clothes on, made of beech, with a swivel in their centre’.
Two ‘Dressing Chests’ (chests of drawers) shown by Sheraton were stated to be designed ‘on a new plan’, with the antique bookcase designs writing slide, found in numerous specimens of earlier date, elaborated to form a shallow drawer containing a rising writing flap, receptacles for ink, sand, and pens, as well as a number of small covered toilet boxes, but appearing, when shut, ‘like a common slider, with a partition banding above and below’; and by the vintage birds eye maple desks close of the modern reproduction of a louis xiv style cabinet with beautiful inlaid pattern century, chests of drawers were often constructed with a comparatively deep frieze beneath the old oak trestle table top. A breadth of 22 or 23 inches was recommended; the greeting cards by carl larrson for sale height was ‘governed by the austrian settee slider’, which was situated ‘thirty-two or thirty-three inches from the antique upholstered regency chair floor’. These chests were designed with shaped fronts (in the scotland oak settle antiques one case concave, the circa 1918 antique omega watches other convex) and with square corners, faced either by receded pilasters or by receded, engaged columns finishing in short feet. Neither chest bore an apron piece. the antique campaign furniture user sat to dress at these pieces, as also at the antique ivory chest of drawers kneehole type of chest or dressing commode which, it may be noticed, was made, for the example of zebra wood sake of convenience, 3 or 4 inches lower than the paul storr silverware standard article, with a total height of about 32 inches.
Fine furniture made in the holland and sons pedestal desk last two decades of the chinese scroll coffee table decoration in the house eighteenth century was technically at its most accomplished; the antique oak pedestal dining table Sheraton style is one of elegant sophistication, and is to-day valued to the barley twist chair full; it lacks, nevertheless, the french veneer cylinder desk richness and vigor of earlier periods.