Archive for the ‘dining tables’ Category
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Mahogany Pembroke Table - Mahogany Writing Table - Regency Period Dining Table - Mahogany Library Table
A Thomas Sheraton mahogany Pembroke table, the top cross banded with herringbone bands of kingwood, with a rising ‘Harlequin’ section with a fall-front inlaid with ribboned festoons of flowers in scorched and green fruitwood, in the manner of Pierre Langlois, [...]
Tags: A Thomas Sheraton, dining, georgian period, PEMBROKE, Regency, regency period, satinwood, sofa table, Tables, value
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
TABLES dining, on four legs
A mahogany expanding dining table of a type often thought of as mid- or even late-Victorian but whose legs belie the later dates. Although the constructional form was used later, it originated in the 1830s and 1840s.
These legs are of a bulbous-and-baluster turning with collars, more popular initially in the 1840s [...]
Tags: 16th century, 1830s, 1880s, 18th century, Art Deco, arts and crafts, cabriole, cabriole leg, dining tables, Edwardian, Queen Anne, Rectangular, Victoria, victorian furniture, victorian mahogany
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, mahogany multi-pedestal
A two pedestal table with column supports and curving legs having a dark inlaid stringing line. The centre leaf is supported by strong metal catches. Note that the tripods are not evenly spaced so that when the flap is taken out they can come together without clashing. c.1790
Similar to the first example [...]
Tags: breakfast table, breakfast tables, dining tables, elegant table, end tables, gateleg table, georgian period, pedestal dining table, pedestal table, pedestal tables, tripod table, tripods
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, Georgian and Regency single pedestal
Fashion at the end of the eighteenth century moved away from the long table, with its implications of seniority, towards the round table where such distinctions were less marked.
In addition the use of a separate small comfortable room (the breakfast room) for family meals or intimate dinner parties, led [...]
Tags: 1850s, breakfast room, breakfast table, design, eighteenth century, mahogany table, pedestal tables, Rectangular, satinwood, value
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, Victorian pedestal
As might be expected the range of pedestal tables was large and the following selection shows the range. Value is affected by decorative potential as well as quality of workmanship.
Superb quality in exotic woods, these saloon tables’ were very much in the grand manner. They were made by firms like Holland & [...]
Tags: 1830s, 1850s, 1870s, mahogany pedestal, marquetry, pedestal tables, straight leg, walnut top
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, Georgian extending
The limitations of the gateleg table are obvious; its size cannot be above a certain dimension and the legs get in the way of the diner. The George III D-end table resolved the first problem, although not always the second.
The concept of the D-end table is ingenious enough. The two D-ends, each [...]
Tags: circular tables, dining, dining tables, double gates, drop leaf table, end tables, gateleg, gateleg table, George III, oval, oval table, Rectangular, Tables, two legs, value
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES - dining, mahogany gateleg, Chippendale and after
When one considers the revolution in design of chairs associated with the name of Chippendale, it is amazing that he never mentioned dining tables in his trade catalogues. His firm made gatelegs with D-ends among other complicated tables discussed in the next section but, perhaps justifiably, his name [...]
Tags: American, chippendale period, country, design, dining, dining table, dining tables, eighteenth century, George III, Legs, mahogany, mahogany table, Rectangular, rectangular table, square leg
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, mahogany gateleg, shaped foot, 1735-1760
Just as the stretchers disappeared from chairs in the early part of the eighteenth century, so mahogany dining tables rid themselves of stretchers at much the same time. Perhaps it was the strength of mahogany or simply the desire to refine. Whatever the reason, some superb tables emerged. Good [...]
Tags: cabriole, dining, dining table, dining tables, elegant table, ENGLISH, mahogany, Price, Side
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, early gateleg
Examples exist from the early part of the seventeenth century but they did not come into general use until the middle of the century, when dining at small tables became common, not only in the homes of the middle classes, but even the large houses.
The value of a gateleg today is greatly [...]
Tags: 17th century, double gates, gateleg table, gateleg tables, leg, Legs, oval, seventeenth century, small tables, stretcher, top, two gates
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, refectory
Oak tables of the seventeenth century, with their rectangular boarded tops, are now generically referred to by their Victorian title of refectory tables. They evolved from trestle-supported boards, and developed into more sophisticated bulbous-legged tables and draw tables (tables with second leaves under, which pulled out to extend the table) in the sixteenth [...]
Tags: dining, gateleg table, gateleg tables, mahogany, nineteenth centuries, Oak tables, Price, refectory, Refectory Tables, seventeenth century, wainscot chair, Wood
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