Posts Tagged ‘Queen Anne’
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 [...]
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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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Queen Anne secretaire
The increasing skill of the cabinet-maker and the change in style to loftier and more spacious houses brought new variations to antique writing furniture.
Signs of authenticity of Queen Anne secretaire
1. Plinth moulding with matching moulding on joins of component parts.
2. Side veneers matching on component parts.
3. If with serpentine apron incorporating bracket feet, [...]
Tags: bandage, brass knobs, display cabinet, drawer, Marriage, modern materials, Queen Anne, secretaires, Vauxhall
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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 1st, 2009
DESKS: BUREAUX ON STANDS
About 1670-1760
A development of the medieval slope-top box which in the late 17thC was increasingly mounted on a stand, either fixed or as a separate entity. Its hinged flap slopes when closed, forming a flat writing-surface with a knee space below when open. The interior is fitted with small drawers and pigeon-holes [...]
Tags: ball, bureaux, cabriole, chest of drawers, claw, decorative veneers, Desks, interior surface, mahogany, medieval, oak, pigeon holes, Queen Anne, rear portion, STANDS
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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 [...]
Tags: 18th century, bone inlay, bookcase, chest of drawers, commodes, country, Drawers, ENGLISH, glass mirror, hepplewhite, inlays, oak, quality mahogany, Queen Anne, veneer, veneers, walnut
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
A Chippendale mahogany kneehole desk of exceptional quality, c. 1760. The front is of serpentine shape and the choice of veneers is extremely fine, showing pronounced figure.
The mouldings show considerable refinement. A cock bead is to be seen around the drawer edges and the shaping of the bracket feet is one typically attributed to the [...]
Tags: Chippendale, Desks, drawer, Drawers, ENGLISH, library tables, mahogany, period, Price, Queen Anne, secretaire, Value, walnut, wood, yew, yew wood
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
ANTIQUE ENGLISH BUREAUX
Before antique bureaux in the Middle Ages many small portable oak desks were made consisting of a simple box with sloping hinged lid on which the owner could write and keep his papers inside. Towards the end of the 17th century this form of desk appears to have been also made on a [...]
Tags: 17th century, Antique Bureaux, bookcase, bureau, Cabinet, cabriole legs, chest, country, desk section, Desks, ENGLISH, furniture, mahogany, middle ages, oak desks, Price, Queen Anne, table, top drawer, Value, walnut
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Antique English Georgian Walnut and Mahogany Pedestal Desks.
Original pedestal desks - George III mahogany desk - George III provincial kneehole pedestal desk - Victorian oak desk with mahogany veneer - 18th Century walnut desk
The pedestal desk was not made until c.1765 when it can be seen in its grandest formĀ very large and ornate, and [...]
Tags: cupboard, Drawers, dressing table, George III, honduras mahogany, library furniture, mahogany, oak, pedestal desk, Pedestal Desks, pedestals, Queen Anne, room furniture, table, Thomas Butler, Thomas Chippendale, top drawer, top drawers, veneer
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