Posts Tagged ‘Wood’
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 [...]
Tags: 19th century, A WILLIAM IV, antique furniture, antique mahogany, BREAKFAST, card, drawer, Edwardian, George i, George III, GILTWOOD, library table, marquetry, Occasional, paw feet, reading table, Regency, satinwood, Tables, VICTORIAN, William, William IV, Wood
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLES side, lowboys (mainly cabriole leg)
Largely ignored in standard textbooks concerned with the development of furniture design is a delightful little group of tables which ranges from finely made town examples down (or should it be up) to enchanting small country fruitwood or yew pieces; these are eagerly sought after but are often impossible to [...]
Tags: cabriole, drawer fronts, drawers, Dressing Tables, edge, fruitwood, furniture, Side Tables, Tables, tallboy, top drawer, walnut, Wood
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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 [...]
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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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLES reading, writing and artists
Architects’ tables were large and solid; others were of lighter construction and designed to fit in with furnishings in the fine reception rooms. The best are to be counted among the most elegant furniture. Even the inelegant are loved collectors love pieces that do things.
A much more simple reading table with [...]
Tags: Antique, candlesticks, chippendale, drawer, elegant furniture, inlaid, mahogany, Price, Queen Anne, reading table, rococo style, Tables, Tripod, tripod table, Victoria, victoria and albert museum, Wood
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
TABLES nests of
Antique nests of tables are illustrated by Sheraton in his Cabinet Directory of 1803 and have been much reproduced since then. They were described as ‘quartetto’ tables and, while Sheraton envisaged them as useful for needlework, George Smith in his Household Furniture of 1808 saw them in their more modernly accepted role for [...]
Tags: Antique, cabinet, cabriole legs, design, Directory, embellishment, furniture, household furniture, inlaid, Lancashire, Legs, Tables, walnut, walnut veneer, Wood
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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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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES dining, refectory
Oak tables of the seventeenth century, with their rectangular boarded tops, are now generically referred to by their Victorian title of refectory tables. They evolved from trestle-supported boards, and developed into more sophisticated bulbous-legged tables and draw tables (tables with second leaves under, which pulled out to extend the table) in the sixteenth [...]
Tags: dining, gateleg table, gateleg tables, mahogany, nineteenth centuries, Oak tables, Price, refectory, Refectory Tables, seventeenth century, wainscot chair, Wood
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES, card, games and tea, centre pedestal
The centre pedestal applied to side and card tables is a late Georgian or early Regency form.
This table is in rosewood, with elegant curved legs ending in brass paw castors. The top is cross-banded in satinwood and the octagonal centre column has an inlaid boxwood line at the edge [...]
Tags: brass, cabinet, cabinet maker, card tables, design, mahogany, mahogany veneer, octagonal, pedestal, quality mahogany, Regency, rosewood, satinwood, Wood
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES games and tea, Sheraton
As we have seen, the half-round (or demi-lune’) table, opening to a circular form, has a very early provenance, which continued in the early Georgian period and lent itself to taper- or turned-leg form as fashion progressed. It is commercially important that there is no warping of the top.
The form is [...]
Tags: edge, georgian period, mahogany, mahogany serpentine-fronted table, paw feet, Regency, rosewood, satinwood, Sheraton, tables games, Wood
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
TABLES folding card and tea, square Chippendale
The fashion for taking tea and other refreshments such as chocolate undoubtedly led to more occasional use of folding side tables, some even being made in pairs, one with baize interior covering for games and one with a polished surface for use when entertaining. These latter are often referred [...]
Tags: card, chippendale style, eighteenth century table, folding side tables, mahogany Chippendale, Tables, Wood
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