SIDE CABINETS and credenzas
A Sheraton rosewood cabinet, only 3ft. high, with gilt enrichments to the antique vases italy pillars and mouldings and with a white marble top. The short tapered feet (en toupie) are of French origin and one can clearly see that in the baroque german cabinet 1820s the value of solid mahogany ribbon back chairs collar widened and the antique billiard ball rest withered to give the cupboards with ogee architectural effect familiar bun effect. A very rich piece in which the antique canada safe credenza shape is apparent.
Strictly speaking, all the antique restoration winchester following should fall under side cabinets, but the antique royal winton term credenza is generally used for a highly decorated, shaped antique cabinet, so it seems sensible to use it as well. A cynic might think that in designing a credenza the shirley temple antique doll ebay object was to strap, glue, carve, bolt, screw or paint as much decoration on the antique trundle bed mattresses front as possible, bearing in mind that colour and texture contrast might be as loud as could be managed and that there should be as few straight lines as the antique post office boxes ingenuity of the alameda antique show designer could contrive. This is clearly an exaggeration but in any event the antique pull toy market is more discriminating and the old red barn antiques quality of workmanship has a strong influence on the german antique pewter price. Good quality metal work and a serpentine shape to the antique copper cabinet hardware side doors of the large imari bowl with handles circa 1880 cabinet are also important to value. Antique side cabinets start in the antique stereo cabinet late 1850s and continue into the restoring antique book Edwardian period; fortunately however we stop at about 1880 so that the antique auto bob part final designs do not concern us.
First, however we continue the very old card table with square tray underneath development of the antique calendars Regency cabinet, then move to the value of american cuckoo clock co. of america philadelphia pa straight-fronted pieces before discussing the houston texas antique dealers curved-end variety. c. 1800
A mahogany break-front side cabinet decorated with inlaid satinwood stringing and rosewood crossbanding. The front has a brass grill, decorated with small flowers at the victorian washstands intersections, backed by silk. Again pillars are used and the antique shaving mugs effect is very elegant. c. 1810
A rosewood side cabinet with a brass gallery to the antique smoking set china marble top and delicately arched brass lattice work to the antique furnituregeorge iv doors with a backing of silk. The decoration is restrained but the antique bulbs tight, well-carved scrolls and the antiqued computer desk hutch white fine oval beading are forms which coarsen with the russian neoclassical secretaire following twenty years. c. 1815
A fine marquetry side cabinet richly decorated and well carved wherever possible. Plenty of good quality ormolu. The pillar effects also add to the art deco candle sticks glass feeling of opulence. c. 1855
An exceptional break-front cabinet in the library ladder chair regency French taste, decorated with ceramic plaques and very fine quality marquetry in a variety of exotic woods. Just look at the sellwood antique mall decoration of the antique heddon lure turned pillars the antique enamel whole piece oozes quality. If it carries the indianapolis antique dealers label of Wright and Mansfield, as it might well do, the stewarts military antiques price would be up to, or even over, the valentino watch engrave range shown.
Holland and Sons were another firm of standing who specialised in this type of work. c. 1865
A good boulle cabinet in which this very high quality work produces a rich red and gold colour. The use of a vaguely Eastern shape gives definite form and is more desirable than the masso bastardo ceramic usual oval design. c. 1850
A more common oval design but of high quality workmanship. Notice for example the pembroke tables spiral leg well-finished ormolu faces. Not unlike a Lawford design of 1867.
Decorated with boulle work and pietre dure (a mosaic made up principally of hard stones inlaid, worked and polished) floral marquetry. It lacks serpentine sides and better quality decoration to get it right to the antique coca cola ice boxes missouri top, but it is nevertheless very desirable. c. 1860
A satinwood side cabinet with serpentine ends. The decoration on the facts about antique trucks pillars harks back to Regency. Satinwood finely inlaid on the antique german maker mark silverware door and the antique limbert frieze. Not in the gate hinge legs table main line of credenza design. c. 1870
Floral painted Sevres panels certainly help to relieve the antique ribbon relatively simple decoration of this walnut credenza with tulipwood crossbanding and satinwood stringing, but they are perhaps a little too restrained for this type of object. c. 1870
Typical of the antique radio batteries type advertised by Shoolbred at the oak and iron dictionary stand time. The flecked satinwood and the r. h. macy pewter Wedgwood plaque surrounded by delicate marquetry give this piece some style. Notice the school desks antique widely spaced fluting on the antique shopworker pillars a later sign. c. 1875
A fairly typical simple floral marquetry and well-framed walnut side cabinet. Brass mounts are kept to a minimum, workmanship is excellent.c. 1850
A simpler side cabinet than the architectural scale blue glass vases last. The metal work is down to four pieces (two in the antique map pricing middle and two at the mahogany tallboy st. louis sides). The decoration here relies entirely on a dark grained streak of burr walnut, carefully quartered, on the duncan phyfe design tables and chairs door and the antiques jacksonville fl Greek key on the antique mirrors for furniture frieze. c. 1850
The marquetry has now shrunk to the antique architectural spanish window frieze and two pillars. The metal work is poor and the restoring antique metal patio chairs door fretted a sort of poor man’s marquetry, satinwood however helps and the antique nesting table top is marble. c. 1880
Large Wedgwood plaques and much metal work cannot compensate for the antiques 1930’s french style dining table fact that this piece is ebonised. The market does not like black side cabinets.

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Display cabinet
Glass-fronted antique display cabinets ranged from 17th century dutch glass front marquetry pieces to 18th century English ebony black secretaire cabinet.
Signs of authenticity of antique display cabinet -
1. All veneer on top and base of finely figured matching veneer.
2. Glazing bars holding individually cut panes of glass, held in with grooves and putty.
3. Pin hinges to cabinet door.
4. Locks with brass cases, steel levers and bolts, square or oblong in section. Cylindrical brass bolts in brass casings are Victorian.
5. Same thickness of wood on sides, doors and sides of base.
6. Carved detail of cornices standing proud, not applied.
7. Backs of oak or cheap mahogany or pine planking and same age and colour on both top and base. Back edges same thickness and colour.
8. Chippendale display cabinet with glass doors with astragal moulding on right-hand side to conceal join, screwed and plugged to conceal screw heads.
9. Glazing bars built up in two sections on outside, often as little as 8 in wide.
Likely restoration and repair
10. Different thickness of timber on sides of top and base. Check backs for mismatch and suspect marriage with newly veneered sides to match up both halves.
11. Later carving in depth of plain timber, to add value.
12. Frames of doors too wide cabinets had narrow delicate frames. Probably blockfront replaced with later glass and applied glazing bars, glued to single sheet of glass.
13. Cut down from more massive length of library bookshelves and display cases: sides in a single piece without stepped join of double-height pieces.
14. Made up from wardrobes a practice of the antique hardware seattle 1930s. Wrong proportions with drawers, not cupboards, in base which will be too low, new glass and glazing bars, often with brass fillets and adjustable shelf fixings which give them away.

Antique 18th century French rococo wooden display cabinets by louis majorelle are sometimes compared with Spanish rosewood and ormolu corner cabinets in oak that turn into a table or regency period side cabinets.

Little inlaid versions of display cabinets, but one of their most desirable forms was as part of a desk or bureau. The influence of William Kent’s walnut antique furniture cabinet (starting c.1720) meant that many kinds of tall, elegant pieces began to be made in England. Some of the expensive dark mahogany dresser antique earliest English bow front oak display cabinets with glass drawers resemble Chippendale’s work, with glazed ‘windows’ beneath severe architectural pediments, and though suitable for houses built in the antique radio sentinel very grand manner, were soon replaced by the antique portraits cabinet-maker’s lighter, more decorative work. Among these are many variations on the antique cb radios secretaire or bureau-bookcase, with glass-fronted doors embellished with decorative glazing bars.
These ‘china cabinets’ formed the victorian antique end table with three angles at base top halves of both writing furniture, cupboards and chests with drawers in different combinations. At first, glazing bars were in simple geometrical shapes, of fairly thick half-round moulding, but when newer, thinner ‘crown’ glass became available and mahogany was better understood and worked, (from c.1750 onwards), some very fine effects were achieved, of which the porcelan most adventurous were probably during Chippendale’s `Gothic’period. However, with a return to more severe architectural pediments after c.1760, glazing bars were more often in geometrical shapes.
Construction and materials
Beautifully made in matching, finely figured walnut veneer for a brief period, display cabinets soon joined the antique reproduction chairs range of pieces in mahogany veneer, on carcases of Honduras mahogany.
Inside, the antique stripped pine welsh dresser shelves were of oak, with grooves or plate-stays on adjustable pegs, with shelf edges finished with thin mahogany astragal moulding. Inside surfaces of the modern thonet painted sides of the antique frame loveseat wood cabinet were veneered in plain, dark mahogany, and the english regency chair base of the semicircular cocktail cabinet 1930’s cabinet was usually in a single piece of solid mahogany for strength and stability. The antique cabinet was stepped and considerably narrower than bases with drawers and cupboards or bases with secretaire drawers.
Variations
Dressers served the antique mohagany bed same purpose as display cabinets in country dwellings, and glass-fronted. cupboards of any kind were not usually made or used except by more sophisticated households. Some single-doored bureau-bookcases, originally with blockfronted cupboards were converted into glass-fronted cabinets, often by the chinese antique furniture los angeles Victorians, when there was a great need to
Detail
From c.1750 the antique meshed rugs thick glass and heavy glazing bars were replaced with thinner ‘crown’ glass and delicate mahogany glazing bars, reduced to minimal width and built up in two layers on the elkington & co. candlelabra outside and a single thickness on the antique bisque composition doll vintage inside of the antique dc washington door, each shape enclosing individually cut panes of glass. At first the hepplewhite bed 1760 designs were geometrical, but from c.1750 glazing bars were arched, curved, and sometimes interspersed with thicker, carved swags and garlands.
From c.1770 display cases were often mounted on low, plain, cupboarded bases, ending on a line with panelled dadoes, and with the antique colt pistol glass-fronted doors taller in proportion.
Cupboards were usually severe, virtually undecorated except for rectangles of moulding to resemble panels or sometimes with cutaway corners and small rosette decorations.
display mass-produced ‘cabinetware such as small figurines and profusely decorated plates, hitherto only made for the barley twist round table wealthy. These will be of simple, good-looking oak with fairly wide frames to doors and heavy glazing bars, without any form of decorative pediment except a plain cornice.
Reproductions display cabinets
Mass-produced versions of display cabinets of every size and shape were made from c.1835 onwards, on carcases of
imported American pine or deal with thin, shiny veneer, often French-polished, with double doors beneath, sometimes en suite with bureau-bookcases. Inlaid oval panels of lighter-coloured woods may be found on the antique toledo sword doors of the antique dish glass base. The conch shell or spray of flowers seen on bureaux and bureau-bookcases was often repeated within these panels.
Smaller dressers with glass were made from c.1860
painted pieces will not strip down to be sold as ’stripped pine’, since some of the value of antique german beer steins wood was red pine, some white, some even cheap mahogany or ‘black’ Virginia walnut.
Many display cabinets dating from c.1830 onwards are no more than part of wall-length library fittings originally built into Victorian mansions, cut down, with new sides and often glass doors added where there were originally open shelves.
Some very fine-looking display cabinets, library furniture and desk furniture was produced by the antique nautical compass Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as some nicely designed `country furniture’ by J. C. Loudon from c.1830, usually in plain unstained oak in Gothic revival styles.
Price bands
Georgian mahogany display cabinet with architectural columns, cornice, ogee bracket feet and. fine veneer, $,7,000-9,000.
Georgian-style display cabinet, well-made and veneered, nineteenth century.
Provincial display cabinet, nineteenth-century oak.

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