Archive for the ‘American Bookcases’ Category

1820 chairs, antique claw ball commode, carved kneehole desks

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Towards 1730 in England, japanning lost much of its character; later work is for the dinning table pull out type most part undistinguished and the antique chair design/rg raised decoration is in comparatively low relief. the ball & claw antique table bold designs derived from Oriental prototypes were replaced by a more conventional delineation of [...]

Antique American Bookcases

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Antique Bookcases
Art Deco bookcases, walnut, an upright rectangular stepped case stepped open shelves, the front edges painted black, in the style of Paul Frankl, ca. 1935,
lower section projecting banded deep drawer over three graduated molded drawers flanked by turned, carved & baluster-shaped columns, on turned feet on casters, ca. 1840.
Federal ‘extension’ bookcase, mahogany, the bookcase [...]