Posts Tagged ‘stretchers’

ANTIQUE TRIPOD TABLE, CARVED OAK CENTRE TABLE, ANTIQUE FRETWORK WALL MIRROR, DISPLAY CABINET ON STAND

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

ANTIQUE TRIPOD TABLE, CARVED OAK CENTRE TABLE, ANTIQUE FRETWORK WALL MIRROR, DISPLAY CABINET ON STAND

A CARVED WALNUT ARMCHAIR, George II style, with a pierced splat back and cabriole legs, on claw and ball feet
A CARVED GILT-GESSO AND UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR, Louis XVI style, with an oval back and fluted turned legs
A CARVED OAK CENTRE TABLE, 18th [...]

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 [...]

Antique Bureaux on Legs

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

BUREAUX  reproduction, on legs
This section covers several types of bureaux which emulate earlier styles with varying degrees of accuracy. They are mainly small pieces of furniture intended for occasional use.
A made-up oak desk on stand with an interesting contrast of styles which works quite well. The top desk section has been carved in 17th century [...]

Bureaux on Stands

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

BUREAUX ON STANDS
Late seventeenth century oak bureau showing the evolution from a simple desk to more complex internal drawers and pigeon holes under the fall-front. The bureau is on a stand with a single drawer in it and on
baluster-turned legs with square stretchers, one of which is missing (left-hand side). Note here the ‘desk’ section [...]