Posts Tagged ‘stretcher’
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, 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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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Sofa table
Sofa tables belong to the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first two of the nineteenth, after which they became ‘occasional tables’ without a specific function. They were originally designed for writing or playing games while people sat on a sofa, and as such were usually at least 5 ft long, sometimes [...]
Tags: brass locks, central pillar, drawers, eighteenth century, furniture, honduras mahogany, lion, occasional tables, pillar, Side, Sofa, sofa table, Sofa Tables, stretcher, trestle table
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Sutherland table
These slim, practical folding tables were reputedly named after Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria during the early decades of her long reign. The combination of a cheval-type construction and gate-leg is far more successful and elegant than it sounds and they are among the few really successful designs [...]
Tags: card tables, folding tables, furniture, gate, Gate-leg, mahogany, PEMBROKE, Queen Victoria, stretcher, Sutherlands, two legs, veneer, victorian period
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Queen Anne drop-leaf table
Although popularly known as `Queen Anne’, the drop-leaf table did not really come into widespread use until mahogany
Signs of authenticity
1. Heavy weight of mahogany –San Domingo or Cuban.
2. Grain of flaps and central fixed top all running parallel to joins.
3. Each piece of table top cut from a single piece of timber.
4. [...]
Tags: cabriole, dining tables, drop leaf table, ENGLISH, FRENCH, french walnut, George i, mahogany, Queen Anne, scrape marks, stretcher, Tables, veneer, Virginia, walnut, Wood, Wooden
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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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