Posts Tagged ‘18th century’

OAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, WALNUT WALL MIRROR, BUTTON UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR, MAHOGANY ROCKING CHAIR

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

OAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, WALNUT WALL MIRROR, BUTTON UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR, MAHOGANY ROCKING CHAIR
AN OAK HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, mid 18th Century, with a raised gallery top above a fielded paneled door, 49cm. wide.
A MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE, George III style, early 20th Century, with astragal doors and serpentine drawers, on cabriole legs, faults to glazing, 208cm. high [...]

Antique Bureaux on Bracket Feet

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

BUREAUX  reproduction, on bracket feet
The bureau seems to have languished (except as a bonheur-du-jour) until nearly the end of the 19th century when it enjoyed a revival in various forms but particularly in reproduction Sheraton style. The illustrations in
this section trace the main types of bracket foot bureaux up to 1930. We have included those [...]

BUREAUX — later 18th century

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

BUREAUX — later 18th century
In the early part of the eighteenth century the bureau was high fashion. Gradually as the century progressed and property increased a succession of new pieces of writing furniture were evolved or adapted with the
result that the bureau as illustrated in the last section (but not the bureau bookcase) tended to [...]