Posts Tagged ‘mahogany’
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Antique Tables: English and French Oak, Mahogany and Walnut Antique Sofa, Gateleg, Writing Tables and Desks
AN OAK “CREDENCE” OR FOLDING TABLE with semi-circular hinged top, the
moulded frieze with a drawer and broad canted corners, the frame raised on four baluster legs joined by a platform stretcher, and with a baluster-shaped gateleg back support, 2ft 7in. [...]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
DESKS roll-top
A rather fine oak roll-top desk in which something of Eastlake’s preaching on Gothic reformed furniture has taken effect. Note the panelled sides, the incised line decoration on the drawers and the carved trefoil motif on the slope frame. Undoubtedly intended for use by some professional of ‘reformed’ leanings. c. 1875
An oak roll-top [...]
Tags: bookshelf, Desks, drawer, mahogany, oak roll top desk, pedestal desk, pigeon holes, something, veneer, watching tv, Wootton
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
DESKS Victorian, Edwardian Pedestal
A handsome burr walnut pedestal desk with superstructure including a sloping writing surface, drawers and a turned baluster gallery. A type of desk once rather despised for its superstructure, which was often
removed to convert the piece into a flat-topped pedestal desk of more Georgian appearance. Now, however, the form is coming into [...]
Tags: 1870s, appearance, approximate dates, boom time, Chippendale, Desks, Edwardian, hepplewhite, mahogany, marquetry, pedestal desk, Queen Anne, Sheraton, superstructure, veneers
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
DESKS About 1620-1680
The Pilgrim period: Desks in the sense of specialized, substantial pieces of furniture are virtually unknown, but a portable writing-slope of the kind used since the Middle Ages is commonplace.
A shallow box about 24 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 12 inches high (60 cm by 51 cm by 30 cm), with sloping [...]
Tags: bookcase, cabriole, Desks, interior surface, mahogany, New England, painted flowers, Price, Queen Anne, strap hinges, West Indies
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Antique French DESKS About 1770-1800
Louis XVI secretaire-a-abattant in satinwood with marquetry decoration.
Neo-classical, first phase: ‘Louis XVI’ style already established in France by 1771, four years before death of Louis XV. Sinuous shapes replaced by rectilinear carcase for secretaire, straight tapered legs (square or round section) on bureau plat and cylinder-topped desk. Many pieces still highly [...]
Tags: 1780s, bureau plat, Desks, Directoire, drawer, FRENCH, louis xv, louis xvi style, mahogany, Neo-classical, secret drawers, writing tables
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
ANTIQUE OAK, WALNUT AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRES
The term secretaire is a kind of catch-all word for antique writing furniture other than out-and-out bureaux, davenports, bonheurs-du-jour, pedestal desks and other specific items. It is used for fall-front walnut pieces, often described in their original papers as scrutoires (or escritoires) and for later pieces of a writing nature.
A [...]
Tags: Antique, antique oak, bureaux, drawer, mahogany, mahogany chest, Pedestal Desks, secretaire, secretaires, walnut, walnut pieces, wood
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Antique English Furniture - Mahogany and Walnut Bureau
An Edwardian inlaid bureau with cylinder front, c.1905. Eighteenth century and Regency styles became popular at the end of the nineteenth century and this is a good example of Edwardian ‘Sheraton’. The square tapering legs with their thin stringing line end in casters. The inlay of the rosewood [...]
Tags: Adam, Antique, antique english furniture, antique mahogany, cabriole, chest, Drawers, Edwardian, ENGLISH, George III, late eighteenth century, mahogany, Queen Anne, rosewood, walnut
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Antique Oak Furniture Bureau and Bureau Bookcase
An antique oak bureau of c.1740, with an unusual drawer there is a long drawer under the fall, thus ensuring that or be made, and subsequently the normal two short ones. The drawers have an ovolo lip moulding around the surfaces of the piece are in fairly straight grained [...]
Tags: Antique, antique oak furniture, bookcase, boxwood, bureau, Handles, Honduras, mahogany, mid eighteenth century, oak, pillar, wood
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
DESKS: CYLINDER AND TAMBOUR
About 1780 onwards
Both terms are used to describe any desk with a superstructure enclosed by a half- or quarter-round sliding lid which disappears into the structure when lifted. A cylinder top has a continuous smooth surface; a tambour is slatted. This type of desk originated in France a little earlier.
Early examples (about [...]
Tags: bookcase, Commonly, Edwardian, ENGLISH, FRENCH, George III, imitation, mahogany, REPRODUCTIONS, satinwood, superstructure, writing table
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
DESKS: CARLTON HOUSE
About 1785-1915
An Edwardian reproduction of a satinwood Carlton House desk.
Associated by name with the Prince Regent’s London house, and mostly dating from the Regency period, these were first mentioned as such in the 1796 cost books of Gillows of Lancaster, Described in contemporary pattern books as a `lady’s writing-table’. Made throughout the 19thC; [...]
Tags: Antique, Carlton House, cupboard, Desks, drawer, Edwardian, ENGLISH, mahogany, Prince Regent, Regency, REPRODUCTIONS, rosewood, satinwood, Sheraton, VALUES, veneer
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