Posts Tagged ‘oak’
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
A Queen Anne period dressing table - A George III mahogany dressing table - country dressing table in walnut and fruitwood
Towards the end of the seventeenth century the small tables in walnut and oak or country woods specifically designed as dressing tables made their appearance. Before that it seems to have been the practice to [...]
Tags: A Queen Anne, cabriole, cabriole legs, country, desk, Dressing Tables, eighteenth century, fruitwood, Mary, oak, Queen Anne, seventeenth century, Tables, walnut, William, writing tables
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Oak Table of Refectory Type - Late Seventeenth Century Oak Gate-Leg Table - George I Period Mahogany Drop-Leaf Gate-Leg Dining Table
An early oak table of refectory type, c.1600. The large turned legs are connected almost at floor level with heavy stretchers. The main under frame is tenoned into the square tops of the legs [...]
Tags: cabriole, century, chair, chippendale, dining, dining table, George I Period, late eighteenth century, leg, mahogany, oak, oak planks, refectory, table
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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
TABLESÂ 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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Friday, October 30th, 2009
TABLES - occasional gateleg - Willian and Mary fruitwood small side tables - oak occasional table - French country rococo table - Regency carved wood - jacobian gate leg - walnut baroque gateleg table with drawers
First an example of a fruitwood gateleg table. It has a main turned support at each end, showing baluster and [...]
Tags: 17th century, claw, colour, drawers, ENGLISH, FRENCH, fruitwood, gateleg, jacobian, lion foot, oak, Occasional, occasional table, Price, Rectangular, Regency, regency period, Rococo, Side Tables, Tables, top, victorian mahogany, walnut, Wood, Wooden
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Tripod table
1. Made of heavy, dense mahogany.
2. Carving, dishing, piecrust or scalloping integral with table top, standing proud of the surface.
3. Grain of stem running from top to bottom without a break.
4. Proportions correct: when tilt top is vertical the sweep of the curve should not cut into the baluster, carving or decoration, or leave [...]
Tags: cabriole, dining tables, eighteenth century, furniture, Legs, mahogany, nineteenth century, oak, seventeenth centuries, seventeenth century, Side, surface, Tripod, tripod table, Wood
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Library table
In its most general meaning, a library table is simply a table used for writing or reading in the library of a grand house. The term covers a wide variety of tables, from the slender eighteenth century writing table derived from the French bureau plat, to the solid drum-shaped tables which were smaller versions [...]
Tags: centre, drawer sides, drawers, eighteenth century, ENGLISH, escutcheons, Legs, Library Tables, lowboy, mahogany, oak, ormolu, Side, surface, veneer, Wood, writing table
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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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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Gate-leg table
Coinciding more or less with the Commonwealth period, an increasing number of households began to furnish their houses with relatively sophisticated furniture by comparison with the rather basic pieces of earlier periods. One of the most typical was the gate-leg table, made for the houses of yeomen farmers, manor houses and wealthier households whose [...]
Tags: design, furniture, Gate-leg, legged tables, mahogany, oak, period, seventeenth century, stretchers, Tables, timbers, Wood
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Refectory table
There was remarkably little furniture of any sort until the sixteenth century in England, apart from chests to hold valuables and clothes, benches and stools to sit on, and a rough `boorde’ or table for eating from. Tables in ‘refectories’ or halls were dismantled at night and used by knights and squires to sleep [...]
Tags: description table, Elizabethan, England, Jacobean, oak, reproduction furniture, sixteenth century, stretcher, Tables, trestle
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