Posts Tagged ‘george iii’

INLAID BUREAU BOOKCASE, EXTENDING RECTANGULAR DINING TABLE, SMALL MAHOGANY CHEST, WALNUT AND ELM SIDE CHAIR

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

INLAID BUREAU BOOKCASE, EXTENDING RECTANGULAR DINING TABLE, SMALL MAHOGANY CHEST, WALNUT AND ELM SIDE CHAIR
A MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS, George IV, surmounted by an arched cornice carved with parterre, 221cm. high by 123cm. wide.
A MAHOGANY AND INLAID BUREAU BOOKCASE, 18th Century, with later alterations, with astragal doors and four long graduated drawers, on bracket feet, 252cm. [...]

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 [...]

MAHOGANY POLE SCREEN, GILTWOOD SETTEE Louis XVI style, WALNUT DAVENPORT, WALNUT AND EBONISED MUSIC CABINET

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

MAHOGANY POLE SCREEN, GILTWOOD SETTEE Louis XVI style, WALNUT DAVENPORT, WALNUT AND EBONISED MUSIC CABINET
A PAIR OF WALNUT
ARMCHAIRS,   Piedmonts, 18th Century
style, the rails and arms with bead and reel
molding, on fluted tapering square legs.
A MAHOGANY POLE SCREEN, George III, with an oval needlepoint panel, receded baluster stem and on down swept legs, glass cracked, 39cm. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Antique Art Deco and Modernist Bookcases

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Antique Art Deco and Modernist BUREAU BOOKCASES
Bureau bookcases appear to have languished a bit in the mid-Victorian period. There was a continuation of production of the sub-classical types of the 1840s but on the whole writing was at desks and books were in
cabinets. Perhaps the pieces of Burges and Shaw exhibited in 1862 revived a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]