Victorian Side and Display Cabinets and Credenzas
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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.
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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
fluted pillars at the sides. Note the small circular inlaid ‘pies’ at the carcase joints. 1870-1880
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
amboyna or some other burr wood. One is led to believe that this is a commercial manufacturer’s version of Art Furniture, antique automobile lamp with concessions to popular taste and the fact that Edwards and Roberts, pennsylvania house mahogany drop leaf breakfast table the renowned
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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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