Posts Tagged ‘inlay’
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLESĀ 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
TABLESĀ sofa, pillar supports
The final group of sofa tables is the one in which there is a central pedestal. These pieces are therefore linked with pedestal dining tables, for the same type of base was often used.
In mahogany and remarkably similar to a design in zebrawood which can be dated exactly to 1810. The pillars [...]
Tags: design, dining table, drawback, drawer, drawers, ebony, inlay, mahogany, pedestal dining table, pedestal dining tables, period, pillar, Rectangular, rectangular pieces, Regency, Sofa Tables, Tables, Wood
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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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