Posts Tagged ‘BREAKFRONT’

ANTIQUE AND SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED SIDE TABLE, ANTIQUE SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE, OVAL MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

ANTIQUE AND SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED SIDE TABLE, ANTIQUE SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE, OVAL MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLE
A NEST OF THREE WALNUT
OCCASIONAL TABLES, 18th Century, oval
and on turned legs, faults. wide,
together with a blue Japanned wine table,
18th Century, the circular top decorated with a bird and flowers. diameter, and a brass tray top table, Near Eastern, on a folding wood [...]

ANTIQUE AND PINE CHEST OF DRAWERS, OAK REFECTORY TABLE, JAPANNED HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, GOLD PAINTED GESSO FRAMED WALL MIRROR

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

ANTIQUE AND PINE CHEST OF DRAWERS, OAK REFECTORY TABLE, JAPANNED HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD, GOLD PAINTED GESSO FRAMED WALL MIRROR
AN OAK REFECTORY TABLE, 18th Century style, with solid shaped end supports long
AN ANTIQUE TUB SHAPED ARMCHAIR, William IV, the padded rail with sunburst spandrels, on leaf carved tapered legs ending in brass cappings and castors
AN ANTIQUE [...]

A North Italian walnut Commode, Italian provincial walnut and crossbanded Commode, German walnut Cabinet, Louis XV provincial carved oak Armoire

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

A North Italian walnut Commode, Italian provincial walnut and crossbanded Commode, German walnut Cabinet, Louis XV provincial carved oak Armoire
A North Italian walnut Commode, circa, with bell-flower carved terminals and mouldings, the three long drawers above an apron with profile portrait medallion, on tapered square
fluted legs, worm.
A Directoire mahogany Cylinder Bureau, circa, with fluted terminals, [...]

OAK PEDESTAL DESK, MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS, CARVED OAK DINING CHAIRS, OAK CYLINDER BUREAU, WALNUT SIDE CABINET

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

OAK PEDESTAL DESK, MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS, CARVED OAK DINING CHAIRS, OAK CYLINDER BUREAU, WALNUT SIDE CABINET
A STAINED OAK PEDESTAL DESK, Victorian, carved with foliage and caryatid figures, 160cm. wide.
A RECTANGULAR GILTWOOD OVERMANTEL MIRROR, William IV, with molded uprights and applied at the corners with flower heads. 130cm. wide.
AN OCTAGONAL OAK AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE, German, [...]

OAK OPEN BOOKCASE, WALNUT SIDE CABINET, MAHOGANY ENVELOPE CARD TABLE, PARCEL-GILT FRETWORK WALL MIRROR, WALNUT DINING CHAIRS

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

OAK OPEN BOOKCASE, WALNUT SIDE CABINET, MAHOGANY ENVELOPE CARD TABLE, PARCEL-GILT FRETWORK WALL MIRROR, WALNUT DINING CHAIRS
A STAINED OAK OPEN BOOKCASE,
circa 1900, with a lunette frieze and foliate
pilasters, on a plinth base, 228cm. wide.
A WALNUT SIDE CABINET,
Victorian, with a white marble top above
three doors, now with brass grille panels, 136cm.
wide.
A MAHOGANY PEDESTAL
SIDEBOARD, George IV, the [...]

WALNUT AND EBONISED SIDE TABLE, LOUIS XVI STYLE STAINED WALNUT SETTEE, UPHOLSTERED CHAISE EN CONFIDENT, MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

WALNUT AND EBONISED SIDE TABLE, LOUIS XVI STYLE STAINED WALNUT SETTEE, UPHOLSTERED CHAISE EN CONFIDENT, MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
A WALNUT AND EBONISED SIDE TABLE, Victorian, with a pair of frieze drawers and raised on lobed and turned tapering legs, 81cm. wide.    A WALNUT CANTERBURY, Victorian, the dividers pierced and carved with scrolling foliage, on toupee feet, one [...]

REEDED FRAME DRESSING TABLE MIRROR, MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE, BEECHWOOD AND UPHOLSTERED FAUTEUIL, SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED EXTENDING DINING TABLE

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

REEDED FRAME DRESSING TABLE MIRROR, MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE, BEECHWOOD AND UPHOLSTERED FAUTEUIL, SATINWOOD CROSSBANDED EXTENDING DINING TABLE
TWO RUSH SEAT LADDER BACK CHAIRS
A WALNUT ARTIST’S EASEL, 19th Century, with a rear hinged support and ratchet adjusted picture rest, 91cm. wide.; Reputedly to have been in the possession of Sir George Clauses R.A. and purchased from his [...]

Breakfront and Library Bookcases

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

BREAKFRONT AND LIBRARY BOOKCASES
About 1730 onwards
George III mahogany breakfront bookcase with broken pediment.
Free-standing domestic bookcases were rare before the 18thC. Those made for Samuel Pepys in the 1660s are the earliest known. After about 1720, as people owned more books, substantial bookcases were to be found in the libraries of all large houses; by the [...]