Posts Tagged ‘stretchers’
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: 19th century, adjustable chair, armchair, ARMCHAIRS, bracket, BREAKFRONT, bureau, cabriole, cabriole legs, CARVED, CHAISE, drawer box, EBONISED, example, fretwork, frieze drawers, george iii, leather inset, LOUIS, louis xvi style, mahogany, mahogany sideboard, Nicole de Reynis, octoroon, PEDESTAL, rear leg, RECTANGULAR, rectangular plate, rosewood, satinwood, sideboard, spade feet, square legs, stretchers, STYLE, table, TABLES, tripod table, UPHOLSTERED, upholstered chaise, wall mirror
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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 [...]
Tags: 17th century, Art Deco, cabriole, cabriole legs, Chippendale, crossbanding, desk section, drawers, Edwardian, example, furniture, Jacobethan, lacquer, mahogany, Queen Anne, queen anne style, stretchers, walnut, william and mary
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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 [...]
Tags: bun feet, Bureaux, cabriole legs, Chippendale, drawers, mahogany, Queen Anne, seventeenth century, stretchers
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