Archive for the ‘Side Tables’ Category
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
A William and Mary Period Side Table - Mid-seventeenth Century Oak Side table - A William III Walnut Card Table
Probably one of the most collected forms of antique furniture is the occasional side table which is both decorative and sometimes functional. Early forms of side table of the seventeenth century are perhaps a little too [...]
Tags: antique furniture, folding tables, inlaid, mary period, mid seventeenth century, Occasional, Side Tables, square legs, william iii
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Georgian side table - George I mahogany card table - George III mahogany gate-leg table
A George I mahogany card table, showing the candle stands and cups for counters similar to the walnut tables of an earlier period. The bold cabriole legs end in ball and claw feet and the shaped frieze has an echo [...]
Tags: cabriole legs, chippendale, claw, claw feet, dressing table, ENGLISH, fruitwood, George, George III, inlaid, mahogany, oak, period table, walnut
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLES side, lowboys (mainly cabriole leg)
Largely ignored in standard textbooks concerned with the development of furniture design is a delightful little group of tables which ranges from finely made town examples down (or should it be up) to enchanting small country fruitwood or yew pieces; these are eagerly sought after but are often impossible to [...]
Tags: cabriole, drawer fronts, drawers, Dressing Tables, edge, fruitwood, furniture, Side Tables, Tables, tallboy, top drawer, walnut, Wood
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLES side, pad feet and square leg lowboys
In this section there are a lot of country or provincial pieces with the result that assessment of quality and hence value become more subjective than in the previous section. One may find a feature enormously attractive which to another collector has a glaring design fault. This is, [...]
Tags: 1960s, arrangement, cabriole, chippendale, colour, drawers, inlay, lowboys, mahogany, oval, pad foot, piece, Side Tables, square leg, Tables, walnut veneer
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLES side, early, single drawer
We have separated out lowboys or dressing tables and have defined them as having three or four drawers, while side tables are defined as having one or at most two drawers.
The types are clearly related but side or centre tables are found well back into the early seventeenth century. However, for [...]
Tags: cabriole, cherrywood, design, drawer, drawer front, dressing table, Dressing Tables, early seventeenth century, edge, frieze, lowboys, mahogany, marquetry, Mary, oak, olivewood, Side Tables, table, Tables, William
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
TABLES side, pier and console
We join side, pier and console tables together because they are both rich man’s furniture. Once furniture was treated as part of the architecture of the room, say with Adam and the neo-Classical movement onwards, such tables were used to decorate formal reception rooms.
A console is a piece of furniture, without [...]
Tags: Adam, Antique, GILTWOOD, leg, Legs, mahogany table, piece of furniture, Regency, room, Sheraton, Tables
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Side table
1. Grain running from side to side of table top.
2. On solid woods, considerable figuring where timber was split rather than sawn.
3. Back edge of table top sometimes unfinished, with no overhang.
4. Drawers of oak, carcase wood of oak. Pine drawers or other parts of carcase in period piece indicate Dutch origins.
5. Where there [...]
Tags: dining rooms, drawers, dressing table, England, Holland, inlay, marquetry, Netherlands, oak, Occasional, seventeenth century, Side, side chairs, Spain, Stuart, Tables, top edges, veneer, walnut, Wood
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