A Danish mahogany Sofa Table, A Victorian marquetry and gilt-metal mounted Centre Table,  A Louis XV-style rosewood and parquetry Commode

A Louis XVI tulipwood and
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A Danish mahogany Sofa Table,
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A French kingwood and
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A Victorian marquetry and
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A pair of Louis XV-style
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A carved oak Cartouche,
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CABINETS Victorian side, antique building credenzas
A kingwood side cabinet decorated in the grand manner with an inlaid trellis diamond flowerhead pattern in the frieze, most expensive antique dresser repeated as a decorative motif throughout. The diagonal treatment of the kingwood veneer banding around the doors and on the base is in the French manner and can be seen behind the trellis marquetry of the centre door with its glazed oval panel. There are porcelain panels painted with figures and gilt metal mounts with masks and leaf casts as additional decoration. Although it is an English piece, london antiques fairs it has leant heavily on French inspiration and Exhibition stimulus. The curved side doors are glazed to reveal further display shelves. 1860-1880
A walnut side cabinet with two central cupboard doors each having oval porcelain plaques painted with couples in 18th century dress. The curved side doors are glazed and reveal shelves intended for display. The frieze is also inset with porcelain oval plaques and there is a stamped gilt metal gadrooning around this frieze, bristol porcelain marks the top edge of the base and the centre door edge. The central door panels also have gilt metal decoration and are symmetrically quartered with carefully-chosen veneers.
A kingwood side cabinet showing ‘French’ diagonal treatment of the veneer figure, spode queen charlotte but with glazed doors at the centre instead of veneered panelled ones. The tops of these central doors and the curved glazed side
doors, antique set tv with serpentine, antique rugs runners depicting animals dipping shape is not usual on English pieces. The bun feet are ebonised and there are gilt-metal mounts throughout.
A burr walnut side cabinet of the ‘D’ shaped type with burr maple banding. There is a porcelain panel in the centre door, antique mahogany beds depicting cherubs, antique cabinet gun and there are gilt-metal mounts round the edges of the frieze and on the main frame panels. The curved glazed side doors enclose curved shelves. A very popular piece of the 1870s and 1880s but originating in early sideboard-chiffonier designs of the 1850s.
Another walnut D-type side cabinet with gilt-metal mounts and porcelain panels. Very similar to the previous example but with extra gilt-metal mounting around the top edge of the base and the whole piece jacked up on turned feet. The top does not have a moulded edge, antique guns for sale uk nor does the base, court cupboard and there is less panelled decoration in the veneering. There also appears to be less variation in the figure and burr of the walnut.
A fully ebonised side cabinet with serpentine glazed doors either side enclosing shelves with shot-silk lining. The piece is inlaid with boxwood stringing and has gilt-metal mounts throughout. The centre door has a porcelain panel. It would be tempting to associate this jet black furniture with the death of Prince Albert in 1861, antique roll top desk pigeon hole construction after which Victoria herself wore the colour, antique chess electronic fidelity game but the revived use of ebonising probably followed the great Exhibitions, antique oak chairs made in vienna austria particularly that of Paris in 1855 great French cabinet makers were not known as ebenistes for nothing. The commercial catalogues of the 1870s and 1880s show, renaissance high boy or secretary furniture however, antique corner chairs the washington line that such pieces must have continued in popularity for a long time. Definitely now a specialised taste the market does not like black. 1875-1890
A display cabinet designed by Clement Heaton with a glazed three-panel upper part and a painted lower part with scenes from Aesop’s Fables. An unusual version of late Reformed Gothic work.
CABINETS side and display, antique radio refinish 1860-1890
An ebonised Aesthetic Movement cabinet with be-spindled top gallery, 1800 century italian antique bronze pedestal oval shaped dining table with 8 chairs mirror, photo guide to american corner cabinets 17th & 18th century fielded solid panels and painted panels of floral decoration. In the base there is a sort of ‘pot board’ shelf with further turned and
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A very interesting ebonised and inlaid Reformed Gothic display cabinet by Gillows & Co. The pillars, old english drop leaf end table with their architectural, identifying antique silverware pattern ‘roofed’ bases, eugenias antique hardware turned collars and ornamental capitals are of the sort of structural stonework design that one associates with the style. So is the moulded edge around the top and the brass gallery rail at the back with quatrefoil pierced design. The door hinges are of the strap, antique weller ‘revealed’ type but the inlays are perhaps a little bit more floral than the Reformed Gothic pieces of the early 1860s.
An ebonised inlaid side cabinet of Aesthetic Movement characteristics spindled gallery, chippendale mirror with gesso eagle decorative panels, victorian leather mahogany gout stool bevelled mirrors, antique bath accessories ‘pot board’ shelf beneath with ring-turned columns but, english antigue bureaux unusually, antique briggs part drawers inlaid with
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An ebonised side cabinet of mixed Aesthetic and commercial origin, antique tub whirlpool with painted panels depicting an owl and a cockerel. The fluted columns and inlaid decoration are acceptable commercial practice; the spindled lower gallery and painted panels are purely Aesthetic. The lower panels are satinwood inlaid with flowers.
An ebonised mahogany display cabinet of commercial design, albert antique car prince saskatchewan with a rather Japanese glazing arrangement in the central doors and upswept ends to the top surfaces. c. 1890
An amboyna and ebonised side cabinet showing the more severe style and increasing use of ebonising, winchester rifles antique which had both become more fashionable than the rococo plasticity of curve during the 1860s. There are three drawers in the frieze below the top which have porcelain plaques and gilt-metal bandings to decorate them. The central area has two cupboards set with porcelain plaques in the doors and an open area below,
euphemistically termed a gallery. This centre section is flanked by glazed doors enclosing velvet-lined shelves. The workmanship and finish require the highest order of craftsmanship. 1865-1880
A burr walnut and ebonised bonheur-du-jour, antique wheel horse lawn tractor is included in this section because it is tempting to compare it with 87, are antique bed springs valuable and to speculate whether the same maker was involved in both pieces. There is the use of the two
cupboards with porcelain-plaqued doors; there are the three frieze drawers with porcelain plaques and gilt-metal bandings, antique handrail this time the central drawer fitted for writing. Even the burr wood panels are similarly
handled, antique radio dial diagram save for an extra crossband set around them. From there on the piece departs from 87, neoclassical buffets however, antiques chairs elegant for the pillars are fluted and gilded the use of turning has made them thus flashier. The top has a brass
gallery rail around it and, antique design its jewelry manufacture material again, value gustavsberg 1922 vase the columns are turned and the fluting emphasised by gilt. 87 is more restrained. Perhaps it was simply that gilt-metal mounts, vienna porcelain chocolate pot bandings and porcelain plaques all came from one
manufacturing source a sort of Beardmore’s of the 1870s so there was little choice for the cabinet maker. 1865-1870

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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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