Posts Tagged ‘Regency’

ANTIQUE GAMING TABLE, MAHOGANY OVAL PEMBROKE TABLE, WRITING AND WORK TABLE, ANTIQUE SERVING TABLE, REGENCY STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLES

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 [...]

Antique Work Table - A Regency Work Table in Mahogany - A Victorian Walnut Work Table

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Antique Work Table - A Regency Work Table in Mahogany - A Victorian Walnut Work Table
Work tables for use by ladies, with space for needlework materials in a well below were a later 18th century phenomenon and were made in a variety of forms. We have illustrated some typical examples and have
included a number without [...]

Antique Mahogany Tripod Table - Tripod Tea Table - Regency Rosewood Library Table

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Antique Mahogany Tripod Table - Tripod Tea Table - Regency Rosewood Library  Table
The principle role of tripod tables has been as wine or occasional tables for social use. As a piece of furniture a tripod table of small size is decorative and useful in this respect but easilyknocked over and liable to damage. Many of [...]

Mahogany Pembroke Table - Mahogany Writing Table - Regency Period Dining Table - Mahogany Library Table

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, [...]

Antique Mahogany Sofa Table, Walnut Centre Table, Rosewood Card and Games Table

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Antique Mahogany Sofa Table, Walnut Centre Table, Rosewood Card and Games Table - 18th-19th Antique Furniture
A ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE, early 19th century and later.
With a tooled leather-lined top and two frieze drawers with dummy drawers to the reverse, on fluted column standard end supports and splayed and needed feet.
A PAIR OF WALNUT AND FEATHER-BANDED CENTRE [...]

Antique Tripod and Quadripot Table

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

TABLES  smallish tripod and quadripod, 1800-1850
At first antique tripod tables followed the same form as the larger single tables but, with the inventiveness of the Regency period, individual designs emerged. The Victorians produced small Victorian tripod tables with four small legs which strictly speaking do not belong in the same section but which, for the [...]

Late 18th and 19th Century Writing and Library Tables

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

TABLES  writing and library, late 18th and 19th century
The long writing tables, often referred to as library tables, of the late Georgian, Regency and Victorian period have a marked design similarity to sofa tables of the early part of the period, except that they do not have
end flaps. Perhaps designers produced one drawing which the [...]

Antique Work Table without Bags

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

TABLES  work, without bags
Not all work tables had bags beneath. The selection shown here is of a type in which the drawers, fitted into a small table, were sufficient for needlework implements and materials.
A Regency rosewood table with the lyre form built into its supports and brass inlays  enough to give any dealer a rush [...]

Antique Sofa Tables with Pillar Supports

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

TABLES  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 [...]

Sofa Tables with Vertical Supports and Stretchers

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

TABLES  sofa, vertical supports and stretchers
The sofa table is a variation which was evolved from the Pembroke table and gets its name from its intended application, namely, to stand against a sofa. It is therefore long and thin with flaps at the end, whereas the Pembroke is squarer in shape, and so popular did it [...]