Posts Tagged ‘oval’
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
ANTIQUE GAMING TABLE, MAHOGANY OVAL PEMBROKE TABLE, WRITING AND WORK TABLE, ANTIQUE SERVING TABLE, REGENCY STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLES
A LARGE GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR GAMING TABLE
with a baize-lined interior with six square tapering legs,
4ft. 5in. wide (135cm.) circa 1780.
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SEMI-CIRCULAR MAHOGANY CARD TABLES, the tops crossbanded in satinwood and each with a [...]
Tags: A GEORGE IV, A WILLIAM IV, Antique, boxwood, cabriole, card tables, dining, frieze, GAMING, George III, GILTWOOD, kingwood, library, mahogany, oval, PEMBROKE, pembroke table, Regency, regency style, SEMI-CIRCULAR, SERPENTINE, SERVING, serving table, stretcher, table, Tables, tulipwood, writing table
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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, 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, 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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