Posts Tagged ‘marquetry’

Antique Tables: English and French Oak, Mahogany and Walnut Antique Sofa, Gateleg, Writing Tables and Desks

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. [...]

Victorian, Edwardian Pedestal Desks and 1920`s-1930`s Desks

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

DESKSĀ  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 [...]

Antique 18th Century French and Italian Desks

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Antique French and Italian Desks (1715-1770)
Louis XV kingwood bureau plat with serpentine top.
In France, about 1715, the bureau-Mazarin with eight legs and banks of drawers is replaced, probably by Boulle, with the bureau plat (flat-topped writing-table) on four cabriole legs with only three drawers set in line in the frieze, the centre one slightly recessed. [...]

Antique English Escritoires

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

DESKS: ESCRITOIRES
Approximately 1680-1720
William & Mary mulberry wood fall-front escritoire.
0riginally known as a scrutoire or scriptor, this was a valuable piece of furniture in its day, its flat fall-front providing a good surface for
decorative veneers. The earliest versions are small and mounted on a stand, but the majority of survivals are large and sit on a [...]

Antique Pedestal Desks

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

DESKS: PEDESTAL
About 1750 onwards
Mahogany pedestal desk, early-19th Century.
Asubstantial piece of writing furniture deriving from the type of pedestal ‘library’ or ‘writing-table’ made and illustrated by Thomas Chippendale and other high quality London-based cabinet makers in the mid-18thC. Subsequently made in a wide range of sizes, the largest being the double. sided partners’ desk, the smallest [...]

Antique Kneehole Desks

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

DESKS: KNEEHOLE
Kneehole desks were made in the 18th century about 1700`s-1780`s
Mahogany kneehole desk with bracket feet about 1760-1770,
A small and attractive piece, originally devised as a dressing-table, not a desk, but in appearance like a chest of drawers with a central recessed kneehole space backed by a cupboard. Occasionally a hinged top, lifting to reveal [...]

Antique 18th Century Fall Front Desks and Secretaires

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Fall Front Desks and Secretaires
As antique desks especially for writing grew in popularity in the 18th century, different styles were developed. The secretaire a abattant, a tall French writing desk, was first produced in the 1700s in Paris by the cabinet-maker, Jean-Francois Oeben.
The secretaire a abattant looked, from its flat-fronted exterior appearance, like an armoire, [...]