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A high quality inlaid side cabinet by Collinson & Lock, chippendale veneer inlay writing desk the makers who you’ll recall (that is, pearl inlay marble table if you’ve been reading this book and not just looking at pictures) are celebrated for making the cabinet designed by T.E. Collcutt and reputedly setting off the whole Art or Aesthetic furniture craze. In this case they have produced a version of a medieval court cupboard or buffet of irritatingly little practical use, bbcantiques.com presumably intended for a hall or similar passage. One can not refute the quality of the ivory inlaid floral work, antique having in memphis road show they tn nor the crisp spiral reeding of the bold columns but what the blazes would one use it for The plinth is somewhat lame compared with the much-moulded top which has access for storage (of gloves a croquet set bicycle lamps) via the small canted side panels or the central, cote jardin antiques hinged panel. All one can say is that it is an extremely expensive way of constructing two shelves. c. 1880
An oak ‘court cupboard’ incorporating features which no period court cupboard would ever have known, antique coins particularly the matched oak veneering of the panelled surfaces. The raised and carved rectangular panels on the doors and the diamond-shaped panel on the upper central section are a reproducer’s fancy. The turnings are a modern interpretation and so is the abundance of dentillated mouldings round the drawers and doors.
(Dentil moulding is allowed on late 18th century top mouldings of court cupboards.) 1910-1930
An oak court cupboard of modern treatment applied to a traditional form. The turned baluster ’supports’ to the top tier are unhappily isolated against the very modern plain flat panels and drawer front of the rest of the piece. They do not relate to the feet, dennis fulmer antique either, grundig antique radios which are derived from six-plank chests of the 17th century, dutch 18th century silver spoon formed by the continuation of the sides down in a shaped apron. 1920-1930
CANTERBURIES
The name Canterbury comes from a piece of mobile furniture liked by one of the archbishops. Several pieces of mobile furniture fell under this category, antique silver picture frames including a supper trolley, antique pub mirrors atlas stand and the now-accepted
music stand which virtually defines the breed.
The music Canterbury appeared around 1800 and was a restrained piece of mahogany furniture. The post-1860 examples illustrated here exhibit the exuberant rococo designs and other fancies of the time. Like their earlier counterparts, antique auction texas they tend to be relatively expensive pieces when assessed against the workmanship involved in them.
A walnut Canterbury with fretted naturalistic design divisions and a circular panel painted with a scene depicting a bird and flowers.
A walnut Canterbury with a top which lifts to form a writing slope. The divisions below are fretted with scrolled designs. c. 1860
A burr walnut Canterbury of a kidney shape with scrolled fretwork divisions below and a pierced brass gallery rail around the top.
A papier mache music Canterbury decorated with shell and mother-of-pearl inlays. A high quality version valued for its uniquely Victorian character.
A bamboo Canterbury of a type made from about 1880 onwards. Painted decoration in panels is frequently to be found on these pieces. 1880-1910

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Another small mahogany cabinet with art nouveau tendencies, dutch carved cupboard also probably intended for music. A much simpler shape, antique connoisseur connoisseur guide guide jewelry with flat capped shaping to the top and `whiplash’ forms in the inlays.
A display cabinet of art nouveau style, flemish ebony veneered cabinet on stand probably intended as a music cabinet. It is made of mahogany with boxwood and ivory inlays. The top has sinuous curves in the Continental art nouveau fashion with hearts and tulip shapes incorporated in the fretwork and carving. c.1890
An oak display cabinet with ‘art deco’ glazing bars in typical ‘rising sun’ or ‘wireless cabinet’ pattern. The legs have a wedge-like shaping more associated with ‘art nouveau’ styling of earlier years than those in which this piece was made. 1920-1930
A display cabinet on mass-produced short `cabriole’ legs. The piece is veneered in walnut and has two curved glazed doors with simple veneered vertical bars. The shelves inside are glass. Note the silvered decoration in the fixed central panel. c. 1930
CABINETS side and display, oval console commode ‘Louis’ monstrosities, antique jewelry for sale 1900-1914
Another ebonised china cabinet in the ‘Louis’ style, henry wilson antique clock maker plastered with French rococo fretwork, aalto finmar table with a top that has swollen up to grotesque proportions. Since the top unscrews quite easily, lectern, antique it would now almost certainly be removed by a dealer and the lower half sold as a more manageable piece. 1900-1914
This display cabinet is an example of how first class inlaying can be used on a shape which puts the piece into the ‘Louis Monstrosity’ section. The piece is in rosewood and might have been quite attractive had not the upper half gone completely awry and out of proportion. The two flanking curved mirrors jar hideously in the total design. A shipping goods dealer would be tempted to take the whole top off and sell the bottom half as quite an elegant sideboard. 1890-1910
An ebonised china cabinet made in cheap deal, antique stickley chair with bevelled swerving mirrors and machined fretwork plastered all over it. Inside it has plate glass shelves. The makers describe it as a ‘Louis’ style, antique metal sign perhaps. originating the famous derogatory phrase ‘in the style of All the Louis!’ Looking at this and the subsequent pieces, american antique clock made regulator one can understand and sympathise with the obsession of Percy Wells and other designers to get back to clean, antique bellerose restoration functional lines and with dust. 1900-1914
An ebonised piece described as a `Dainty Music or China Cabinet’, antique instructional game this time with a fashionably progressive leaded-light door. 1900-1914
Mahogany with central glazed door and chamfered glazed sides. The maker has run the front cabriole-type legs down the entire vertical height from the top shelf to the ground and secured these legs below the lower
chamfered side shelf by means of an elaborate bracket. The tops of the front legs have quaint fretted brackets to secure them to the upper shelf and this eccentricity of shaping is repeated in the shelf form itself, antique copper chandelier the lower shelves which have an odd, antique glass lamp shade bitten-out centre to avoid the descending front legs and in the absurd top which has spur-like accoutrements on the scrolled ends. When Percy Wells spoke of “flashy and flimsy furniture with embellishments and meretricious ornament”, annex antique fair flea market he might have had this mind. Highly destructible.

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CABINETS side and display, clawfoot desk woodworking plans reproductions 1880-1930, antique gun buyer high
A rosewood inlaid side cabinet with a broken pediment above. An example of how 18th century designs returned to fashion at the end of the 19th century. Although of the ‘bracket-and-overmantel’ school of the late Victorian period, antique pottery prices it would now be sold as Edwardian Sheraton due to the boxwood and ivory inlays of Adam/Sheraton inspiration. 1890-1900
A late Victorian side cabinet-cum-sideboard in what has been called the ‘Victorian Queen Anne’ style a term we have avoided to avert confusion because the Victorians thought that William Kent was a Queen Anne
designer. Also known as the `bracket-and-overmantel’ school. It has many characteristics of the style associated with William Kent in 1720-1730 broken pediment, antique new london connecticut reeded flat columns, antique auto car insurance classical bits, antique advertisements dentil frieze or mouldings, antique card table makers etc. Note, georgian antique slant bookcase bureau however, antique fabric swatch book that it is made in satinwood (good grief, 18th century imitation furniture the expense!) and inlaid with swags and floral decoration in box or ivory and harewood, antique hoof foot writing table etc., design secretaires a style associated with really expensive Edwardian Sheraton furniture. 1895-1905
A satinwood break-front display cabinet in very 18th century style, american sideboards 1850 oak wood antique but showing more restraint than one often associates with Edwardian reproductions. The glazing bars on the doors are in keeping and the broken
pediment, art deco, 1920 chair, with its dentilled moulding is a good proportion. The drawers are crossbanded and the side drawers additionally inlaid with oval panels. The tapering square section legs are connected by a platform stretcher and end in block feet. 1900-1910
A satinwood and marquetry display cabinet which is less faithful to 18th century English origins than 108, consol table dated by emile galle and more to Franco-Dutch ones. The serpentine shaping, antique photo gallery dwarf cabriole legs and rather fancy broken pediment are not severe enough for the English taste and the piece is most likely to end up on the Continent. Nonetheless, genuine regency settee a high quality reproduction in an expensive wood. 1900-1910
109 A satinwood display cabinet in the Grand Edwardian Sheraton manner, antique bell camera howell with a moulded central glazed door and convex-glazed side doors. The decoration is all painted, antique cupboards and cabinets for storing food relying on the 18th century for its origins, antique german sewing table with swags, antique hawaii map flowers, english table inlay brass marble slides casters young ladies and cupids. 1900-1910
A grand form of mahogany display cabinet or bookcase incorporating many ‘Chippendale’ features such as a carved broken pediment on top, antique tiffany flatware services fretted with leaf carving of real distinction, ceramic oriental fruit bowls and a carved concave top
moulding. The glazing bars, japanese two drawer commode in the Gothic style, antique cabin for sale are beautifully moulded and also incorporate scroll and leaf carving. The lower half has a top edge which is gadrooned and a blind fret under this top edge. The ogee or
serpentine feet are carved with scrolls and bas-relief motifs of an almost Chinese inspiration. Very high quality craftsmanship required for this. 1900-1910
A mahogany display cabinet with glazed door to the central cabinet and mirrored upper shelves. There are both turned and square-section tapering columns as well as turned and reeded legs. These legs and the inlays are more Adam in design than Sheraton, auto trader antique cars as are the cherubic panels. 1900-1910
A characteristic ‘Edwardian Sheraton’ display cabinet with a broken pediment above. Made in mahogany with inlays and satinwood bandings and with glass shelves inside. 1900-1914
A walnut cabinet on twist-turnea stand with crossbanded stretcher and on bun feet. There is a cushion drawer under the top moulding. This is quite a good reproduction of a piece of about 1690-1700 date but
inspection of the piece in the flesh would give away the age, american antique switchblades particularly the mouldings and the patina and type of veneer. c.1920
A chinoiserie cabinet on a gilded stand with cabriole legs ending in ball-and-claw feet. Very much reproduced in the 1920s, antique cellarette when the decorative qualities of chinoiserie became, staffordshire england shakespeare collector plates once again, louis xvi style table with 3 drawers highly appreciated. It is, louis xvi buffet mirror in fact, sideboard louis xv 18th century a version of an 18th century type but is quite immediately identifiable as wrong to anyone familiar with the original. Why Well, mahogany carved chippendale antique drop leaf tables, unless you’re prepared to pay big money, antique railroad pocket watch you’ll have to take my word for it, ball claw leg sofa antique because if you don’t know, 17th century tambour desk you’re too lazy or too mean to find out. 1920-1940
CABINETS side and display, antique clock german grandfather reproductions 1880-1930, military antiques and museum lower
A mahogany display cabinet, ashcroft gauge altitude antique in a later version of the Edwardian Sheraton manner, antique road show book on somewhat flimsy cabriole legs connected by a platform stretcher. The inlay is of stylised flowers and foliage and the top cresting shows the flattened moulded top rail so favoured at the time and derived from the art nouveau-progressive designers. A somewhat eclectic piece, antique oriental lamp now popular for china display or for collectors. 1900-1910
An inlaid mahogany display cabinet with an oval bevelled mirror above. Almost certainly a modern dealer would remove all the top mirror section and sell the glazed display cabinet as a more acceptable, 19th century imari jardiniere rectangular
piece with 18th century design associations. For this reason, bells antique this piece is included in the ‘lower’ cabinet section always look carefully at the top back edge for signs of removal of upper storeys. 1900-1914
Another example of a small display cabinet which nowadays would almost certainly have the top mirror section removed and be sold as a nice, antique magazine trader squarish, made in france furniture Sheraton type of cabinet. 1900-1914
A mahogany glazed display cabinet in the rococo Chippendale manner, wright & craighead watch on small thin cabriole legs ending in balland-claw feet. Complex to carve all that fretted work. C. 1900
A kidney-shaped display cabinet in mahogany crossbanded with satinwood in the Edwardian Sheraton manner. The top has a glazed panel with bevelled edge in it and there are husks inlaid into the stiles. The legs are a somewhat feeble gesture towards the cabriole shape but square in section and so slightly curved as to make one think that the man who made them on a band saw was not really certain what he wanted to achieve.
They are neither fresh fish nor good red herring and would best have been left straight with their taper. Apart from the legs it is an elegant and desirably frivolous piece in which any lady would be pleased to display her
favourite collectables hence the price. 1900-1910
A gilt display cabinet made of pine with gesso moulded decoration over which the gilding is carried out, 1925 antique wedgewood cooking range wood burning like a picture frame. The style is an elegant adaptation of late 18th century classical forms. 1900-1910
A mahogany side cabinet, nightstand antique of ‘Chippendale’ type, antique card waiter with a blind fret on the upper frieze and a gadrooned top edge. There are Chinese scenes in the decorated panels and the serpentine bracket feet have gadrooned top
edges. c.1920
An Adam style satinwood cabinet or commode of half-round (or demi-lune) shape on tapered turned feet. The painted decoration of swags and paterae and leaves and ribbons and all the paraphernalia of Adam type is there to supplement the central oval panels painted with dishevelled maidens of Angelica Kauffmann type oh, expensive antique sofa one could go on and on, drop leaf trestle table boring the reader for ever. It’s an early 20th century copy of an 18th century piece and, antique furniture painting if you’re really interested, antique eastlake furniture you’ll read the relevant literature on the 18th century. 1910-1920

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CABINETS side and display, 18th century english country chair ‘art nouveau’ 1890-1910
an art nouveau mahogany display cabinet of rather flimsy construction, antique wooden twin beds or headboards with stained glass decoration to the leaded glazed door and inlaid with beechwood flowers. Rather Liberty’s in design but a bit more sophisticated and individual. c. 1900
an art nouveau bow-fronted display cabinet with glazed side doors decorated with leaded mauve leaves. The bowed doors are inlaid with apple tree motifs and the tapering baluster columns in the central shelf section
are purely decorative.
An interesting side cabinet of art nouveau design of English origins, mantle antique the only sinuousness perceptible being in the inlays. The use of much-leaded glazing appears to have been a feature of later English art nouveau
which emulated some Arts and Crafts Movement designers. Certainly leading was used in the 1920s to give a sort of ‘craft’ look. The thin tapering legs are straight, north carolina antique license plate not splayed in 1950s Danish fashion the one on the left has been dislodged. c. 1900
An art nouveau cabinet of a design possibly emanating from Liberty’s, commode pots who were much associated with art nouveau furniture. The cabinet is of mahogany with inlaid decoration. Note the flat square feet like the ‘caps’ on art nouveau uprights and the exaggeration of the flat top. C. 1900
A side cabinet by Gardner & Son of Glasgow, antique waterfall vanity art deco in the art nouveau manner. Note the flat capped uprights, antique match safes echoed by the feet. The stained glass in the glazed doors is balanced by the inlays in the solid doors, ornate book shelves although the ‘whiplash’ above is not very consistent with the geometric curves below.
An art nouveau display cabinet in mahogany with decorative inlays of floral motifs. Note, antique arcade machines + mirrors again, antique simmons metal beds the flat capped uprights so favoured by Voysey and the pernickety grouping of the `balusters’ in the top gallery in threes and fives.
A mahogany side cabinet, antique car tools the design of which is the result of a union between art nouveau principles and the characteristic Edwardian upper shelf with centrally arched back, books antique radios this time pierced into the ever-popular
broken pediment. The result is that the top has a curiously inglenooked effect while the rest of the cabinet is conventional enough, sue et mare with some art nouveau inlays.
An interesting oak cabinet with folksy-artistic leaded glazed doors above and below, antique wall bookcase the upper ones being curtained. The central door panel has a stained glass still-life scene, antique wooden engraved lecterns depicting a steaming bowl and ladle, austria made wooden doors a
drinking mug or glass, old coin sanaa antique quran a lemon and a decanter. The author naturally supposes that the piece is intended for the storage of the makings of hot punches for winter nights but then some people will think of a drink when
confronted with almost anything …

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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.
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
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
reproducers, antique brass bath faucets both made and stamped it, antique baby furniture reinforces this view. c. 1880
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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An interesting walnut break-front bookcase. The glazed upper doors and the lower doors are decorated with an arched fretted carving in a ‘naturalistic’ style. In form there is not much progress from designs of the
1840s and such pieces continued to be popular until the 1880s, french veneer cylinder desk often making dating difficult. 1860-1880
A break-front bookcase of c.1840 with Gothic arching in the treatment of the glazing bars. The flattened arch of the lower doors is characteristic of the 1840s but is still to be seen in catalogues of the 1880s.
A classic example of a bookcase of a design originating in the 1840s but still to be found in manufacturers’ catalogues, continental signature watches such as Shoolbreds, regency barley twist dresser as late as 1880. In mahogany, antique corn shellers almost always.
A Reformed Gothic bookcase made by Marsh & Jones, antique plant showing many of the design characteristics typical of the type. Note the sloping architectural roof, old french furniture 1800 with its ’tiled’ effect achieved by clinker-built planking, canted corners chest and its
gables which even include barge-boards. It is a roof style beloved by Burges but also used by other designers. Note also the incised decoration, candlestick table leg grain direction the ‘revealed’ construction with pegged tenon joints and the ’structural’ pillars which are, antique razor blades in fact, antique hampden pocket watch purely decorative. Inlaid ivory and ebony decoration complete the scene. 1860-1870
An oak revival bookcase carved with lion masks and leaves, small oak carved settee with geometric mouldings on the doors, appraisal value on an antique car pillars, identifying antique lamp dentillated mouldings and many other attractions to the ‘medieval’ fan. In the Price Guide to Victorian Furniture (now defunct) it was described as mid-Victorian, secret compartment antiques but this seems very unlikely. It is almost certainly late Victorian and could even be Edwardian. This chronological correction does not make it any cheaper, antique cuckoo clock however. c. 1890
A mahogany bookcase, louis xv rococo chair with marquetry inlay, antique bloodstone ring in the Sheraton manner, large oak serpentine dresser with middle cupboard set on an ‘outset’ lower part which has two long drawers on four square tapering legs. The Edwardians were fond of these rather top-heavy pieces
which look a little uncertain, main street antique on their slender tapering legs, antique style wedding dress of bearing the load expected of them. Sheraton and Hepplewhite used this form incorporating a cylinder bureau to the lower half. The illustrated version is
nearly always 20th century. 1900-1910
A solid walnut secretaire bookcase of a type made by Norman and Stacey 1900-1910 and then available at a price of 11. 11s. Od. It was also available in fumed oak or mahogany. The walnut used for this typical piece,
with its bas-relief carved door panels and secretaire drawer, low dining table with carved dragon folding legs with key tended to be an American walnut of straight grain and reddish colour. The pediment of semi-broken type is also typical of the period and the handles are
original. Note that the piece was also available without the secretaire drawer, black dining tables with silver tipped feet but simply with cupboards below, antique emporium rose for 7. 18s. 6d. The reader may note that the Price Guide to Victorian Furniture, antique box decorative gold published in 1973,
illustrated the piece from Norman & Stacey’s catalogue on page 218, weathervane antiques and priced it at 80-120. The above photograph is courtesy of Sotheby’s Belgravia where the piece shown was sold in September 1979.
A bigger version of the previous bookcase, antique beauty blue cream delux eye powder with typical bas relief carving and pedimented top. Would also make a very useful kitchen dresser. No secretaire drawer, antique oil heaters so not so highly priced. 1900-1910
A carved oak bookcase with broken pediment. The doors have leaded lights instead of glazing bars, regency empire furniture a fashion quite popular with furniture from about 1890 onwards.
A reproduction mahogany break-front bookcase in a style of the 1790-1810 period. It is a quite faithful reproduction in proportion and in treatment of the glazing bars. This popular item of furniture for wealthy
bibliophiles is still being reproduced today, antiques markings ‘made up’ from old wood or other items by less scrupulous ‘restorers’ anxious to pass the piece off as old, acorn antiques tickets or simply reproduced to order and size by honest manufacturers. A hardy perennial of the furniture trade. This example 1900-1930
A lesser version to follow the previous example, roper stove antique showing typical ‘Edwardian Sheraton’ characteristics in the satinwood banding around doors and drawers. 1900-1910
A ‘Samuel Pepys’ walnut bookcase, antique engagement replica ring derived from the design made for Pepys and now in the Pepysian library at Cambridge. The glazed doors have heavily carved mouldings above and below and the cupboards below
these doors are of the low proportion associated with the design. 1900-1925
An oak cabinet or bookcase in the Grand Jacobethan manner on large bulbous turned and reeded legs. Complete with reeded columns down the sides, side table wood antique red leather geometrically moulded and fielded panels, antique door pocket carved leaves, antique desk raised edge drawers iron pulls carved bunches of grapes and, mallet antiques london to cap it all, antique import an arcaded cavetto moulding above a dentil one.
A mahogany bookcase of a form used from the 1840s to nearly the end of the century. A small scrolled leaf decorates the side pillars which, louis majorelle in this case, antique hardware catalog are reeded. The piece stands on a plinth and the shelves are
adjustable.
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A walnut music cabinet of a type conforming to the more severe outline of mid-Victorian popularity. There are both shelves and fitted vertical divisions and a brass gallery rail on the top. 1860-1880
A bookcase or display cabinet by Gordon Russell, louis xiv chairs goat feet of 1926 date. Note the almost severe use of the latticed glazing bars the lattice was used by Gimson and subsequently by Russell, 507 antiques toronto on chairs and other furniture. 1926
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An oak bookcase of c.1930 in what would now be called an art deco style but which could in fact be traced back to pre-1914 German styles in its origins. A bureau section is lodged in an aggressively Cubist fashion into the bookcase, antique asian table lamps which has two flanking cupboards. The carved corner decoration on each door is characteristic of what is now very loosely called art deco furniture.
An oak revolving bookcase of typical Edwardian design, antique radio tubes tempe arizona usually found in mahogany with ‘Sheraton’ decoration. This one is carved with leaf and floral decoration, kling mayville newyork antique furniture desk including the top. 1900-1920
A solid walnut side cabinet or bookcase in the Gothic Reformed style, regency chamber pots in which the lowest of the three panels in each side door is not carved for some reason. A sort of Talbert-Eastlake piece, antique craft missing its top structure,
which is characteristic of the ‘revealed’ construction and decoration of the genre. c. 1875
A post-war leaded-light bookcase in the `Jacobethan’ manner, antique garnet in oak of a cheap variety. Raised on twist-turned legs with square stretchers and with one applied split baluster-type decoration on the frieze. 1920-1930

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AMERICAN BOOKCASES AND CABINETS
About 1760-1840
Federal mahogany bookcase with butler’s fall-/root desk drawer, about 1790-1810.
Adesk in the antique square table with lift top, sliding leaves under top base would suggest the want to sell antiques case was intended for books, but in its absence it is difficult and a little pointless to distinguish arbitrarily between display cabinets and bookcases of the bookcase glass doors diamonds antique Chippendale, Federal and Empire periods.
See also CORNER CUPBOARDS AND CABINETS, p. 285 and secretary desks under DESKS, p. 313
Dignified, often massive; the marquetry with birds rococo element played down in the how to tell the difference between an antique and reproduction victorian cast iron fireplace Chippendale period, the antique china chocolate pot pot tea neo-classical style asserting itself in the antique grundig radio Federal and Empire periods.
Mahogany for sophisticated pieces; pine, poplar, for country pieces.
Chippendale breakfront: Centre section deeper back to front than wings; upper stage glazed, shallower back to front than lower, usually with cupboards and/or drawers, but sometimes on a stand e.g. the antique buoys cabinet on Marlboro’ legs made in 1771 by J. Folwell, Philadelphia, to house an orrery.
Federal breakfront: As above, but lower stage sometimes serpentine-fronted.
Empire: Sophisticated bookcases often in one piece with doors glazed with single sheets of glass, flanked by classical columns or pilasters.
Country: Pennsylvania produced two-stage types, glazed doors above divided into square panes; many made 1830-1840 appear earlier, stylistically.
Chippendale: Carving mainly confined to blind fret on friezes and, if on stands, the antique boat grady white legs. Fine fretting within scrolls of pediments.
Federal: Marquetry in the types of antique chair backs Sheraton style.
Pennsylvania German: Carved demilunes arranged in series around door panels.
Painted bookcase.
Mahogany types waxed or, later, French polished. Country types often painted and grained or painted in contrasting colours, with the antique dresser curved occasional motif — e.g. an eagle — in gilt.
Good examples much in demand both for books (especially in lawyers’ offices) and for collections of ceramics, so prices are high, even for cases too large for normal.
CABINETS AND WARDROBES
About 1840-1890
The battles of the antique bar glasses styles is followed by an attempt to discipline design and introduce new ideas.
Many pieces were nondescript – no style at all; but the antique dish ebay more fashionable cupboards and cabinets in the antique frying iron pan mid-19thC were influenced by the antique weather vane passion for reviving, and often debasing, historic styles. Serpentine-fronted ‘Louis’ display cabinets had large glass doors and vernis Martin panels (see EUROPEAN, p. 213). Massive wardrobes and bookcases were built to look like Renaissance palaces or medieval fortresses. The Eastlake style of the hepplewhite mahogany poster bed 1870s purported to follow the antique blue bird perched on tree trunk structural honesty of the martin taylor antiques Gothic period, and was seen at its best in pieces, including bookcases, designed and made by the antique rug blue floral 100 years artist-craftsman L. E. Scott, but at its worst led to such travesties that in 1878, Eastlake disowned them.
The House Beautiful (1878) by C. Cook praised furniture of the refrectory table spanish colonial Colonial period, provoking an antique-collecting craze and some Below ash side-cabinet, with wooden inlay and brass mounts, mid-19thC
CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, BOOKCASES AND WARDROBES
Ebonised cerrywood cabinet, about 1876.
copying of Early American cupboards. The book included furniture in Japanese style designed by A. Sandier and made by Herter Brothers of New York. It has some affinities with European art nouveau, as have cabinets produced in the drop leaf decorative card table 1880s by L. C. Tiffany.
Nondescript: Mahogany.
Louis: Kingwood.
Renaissance: Walnut.
Gothic: Oak.
Colonial: Oak, walnut, mahogany. Japanese: Cherry, various woods for marquetry.
Left, ebonised side-cabinet about 1865.
Fine craftsmanship using orthodox joinery, for best items in Gothic style, some with exposed joints, e.g. through tenons. Increasing use of machined dovetails for commercial products.
19thC copies of Federal bookcases can be very deceptive. The give-away in some examples is the chinese drawers writing box hinged lid -jewelry antique use of mahogany instead of oak for the antique fence in lowell picket shop sides of large drawers.
Nondescript: Fretted shelves, carved brackets, turned spindles.
Renaissance: Broken arches, split banister turnings (machined).
Gothic: Carved and pierced tracery, inlay of stylized flowers, birds and animals.
Colonial: Often inaccurate renderings of Early American decoration.
Japanese: Flowers in marquetry.
Heavy-handed varnishing and French polishing. Herter’s Japanese-style cherrywood pieces ebonised. Ormolu mounts on Louis cabinets.
Louis cabinets sought after and expensive. Large cases of this period, out of fashion until 1980, now wanted.

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18th Century EUROPEAN CABINETS AND CUPBOARDS About 1775-1800
Right, ormolu mount on neo-classical cabinet.
Transition from rococo to neo-classicism (see GUIDE TO PERIODS AND STYLES, p.194) complete in Paris by accession of Louis XVI, 1774, and further encouraged by Marie Antoinette.
Other royal families patronize Parisian cabinet-makers (many of them German) and style soon becomes international, with increasing use of straight legs, flat fronts and tops to cupboards, cabinets, glass-fronted
Louis XVI mahogany jewel cabinet.
vitrines for porcelain and free-standing bookcases (still mainly built-in fitments).
Leading makers in Paris include Oeben, Riesener, Leleu, Weisweiler, Beneman, Stckel, Carlin. In Turin, Bonzanigo, sculptor Above, Dutch marquetry corner cupboards, dating from about 1790.
and cabinet-maker, produces finely carved and painted cabinets, some mounted with busts of Bourbons. Haupt returns to Stockholm from Paris, 1769, versed in neo-classical trends.
Copenhagen requires cabinet-makers to submit designs for test-pieces to the antique roll top pigeon hole desk design Academy, and in 1777 established Kongelige Meubel Maagazin as retail outlet for Danish cabinet-makers buffet, about 1775.
Louis XVI provincial mnoh: about 1780.
Cupboards: Local timbers, e.g. oak, pine, walnut, cherry.
Cabinets: Exotic veneers e.g. kingwood, tulipwood, satinwood, amboyna. Mahogany used in Paris after 1780. Porcelain, bronze, shell, used for plaques and inlay.
Flush surfaces simpler to construct by existing methods because fewer complex curves to contend with when bombe carcase and cabriole leg got out of fashion. Low, rectilinear meuble d’appui (pier cabinet placed against narrow wall between pair of windows)
is outwardly similar to a type of commode with drawers enclosed by doors (see CHESTS AND CHESTS OF DRAWERS, p. 241); larger type has rounded ends or breakfront (middle section projects slightly). A Dutch type has a hinged, lift-up top and a sunken basin for washing drinking-glasses in living-room.
Cupboards: Carved rococo scrolls and flowers abandoned in favour of plainer style in some areas but retained in others (e.g. Normandy) regardless of city fashions.
Cabinets: Until 1780, extravagant use of marquetry, lacquer, boullework (revived by Leleu and others), caryatid figures in ormolu. Doors inset with plaques of Sevres porcelain or bronze. Marie Antoinette fond of inlay in mother-of-pearl. After 1780, fashion for plain mahogany – supposedly prompted by need for economy but huge sums still spent on furniture. Marquetry on Dutch and Spanish examples usually fine.
In France, more restrained use of vernis Martin. In Italy, painting of mythological figures, medallions, urns and wreaths.
Decorated Louis XVI cabinets expensive, especially those with Sevres plaques; plainer ones much less so. Severe Louis XVI provincial armoires cheaper than showier, florally carved Louis XV types.
DUTCH MARQUETRY
Dutch marquetry cabinets in neo-classical style seem to have been reproduced far less often than those with traditional floral marquetry; pale veneers used for ground make refreshing change.
Essential break-front shape.

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CABINETS AND CUPBOARDS About 1800-1850
Pier cabinet in post-Empire style, aboat 1830,
Cupboards: Architectural wardrobes and sideboards with cupboards in cities but in country districts, armoires, dressers continue 18thC traditions.
Cabinets: After French Revolution, the antique guitar restoration and pictures Directoire takes later, austere Louis XVI style a step further with functional cabinets and bookcases – doors with brass grilles or glass panes arranged with flat glazing bars in diamond patterns. From 1804, grand Empire ornament applied to simple, rectilinear shapes. Style adopted throughout Europe and continued after 1815, until 1850 but with ornament much reduced.
Biedermeier: In Austria, Hungary, Germany, Scandinavia, flat-fronted cases display bibelots. Bow-fronted corner cabinets with glass doors above, wood below, also popular.
Similar style in Russian cabinets made by Gambs and Bobkov of St Petersburg.
Style Troubadour (Gothic Revival): Begins in France 1820, runs parallel with Biedermeier until 1850, reaching climax with vast bookcase designed by Cremer and Bernardis for Austrian stand at Great Exhibitions, London, 1851 – pointed arches, pinnacles, domes, cluster columns, tracery.
Louis-Philippe (Rococo revival): Serpentine-fronted vitrines with vernis Martin panels made from about 1830 when Louis-Philippe becomes King of France. Name applied recklessly to cabinets made long after his downfall in 1848.
Directoire and Empire: Mahogany, cherry, maple, fruitwoods, walnut, oak, pine.
Biedermeier: As above but with preference for pale woods – birch, maple, poplar, cherry. In Russia, Karelian birch, poplar, Persian walnut, Brazilian amaranth.
Troubadour: Oak.
Louis-Philippe: Kingwood, ormolu often poorly finished.
Fashion for flush surfaces results in few panelled carcases in sophisticated furniture; most joints disguised. Ends joined to tops and bottoms with lapped dovetails, frames of doors tenoned and mortised, rebated to receive glass. Traditional methods increasingly assisted by steam-driven machines.
Above, Charles X bookcase, about 1825.
Lapped dovetails.
Empire: Turned columns or pilasters often surmounted by Egyptian heads, flanking doors. Ormolu or brass mounts on friezes.
Biedermeier: Ornament limited to sparse use of mounts, geometric marquetry, carved paw feet.
Troubadour: Carved and pierced details from Gothic architecture.
Louis-Philippe: Marquetry, ormolu mounts. Ver-nis Mat-tin lacquer in Louis XV style.
French polishing becomes general except for country pieces, still oiled and waxed, painted, varnished or left natural.
Simple Empire and Biedermeier bookcases sometimes sell at reasonable prices but can take off alarmingly, especially if in pale woods liked by interior decorators. Louis-Philippe vitrines almost always sell at high prices, even though some arbiters of taste disapprove of them.
SHELVES
Until about 1820, shelves in bookcases and cabinets were of wood, usually made adjustable by fitting freely in grooves cut in the 18th century weighing scales ends. Shelves resting on cleats attached to ends, or on studs in holes, generally indicate a later date. Glass shelves in vitrines are usually modern, but may be replacements for wood ones in a period cabinet.
CABINETS AND CUPBOARDS About 1850-1890
Ornate cabinet inlaid with Renaissance ornament, 1870.
Late-19thC trench uitrine in mid-18MC style, with ormolu mounts and panels of vernis Martin lacquer decoration.
Revivals of historic styles continue – Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, rococo – with a grand town-hall version of neo-classicism never wholly abandoned.
Wide variety of veneers – some imported, many local, e.g. olive in Italy – laid on oak in France, pine in Italy, Spain, parts of Germany, Scandinavia.
Outwardly the antique rahr brass key bottle opener same as in previous period, but growing use of dowels in place of mortiseand-tenon, machined dovetails in place of hand-cut ones.
Two-stage cabinets of 16thC Renaissance form, made in Germany about 1880 have fine Meissen (Dresden) porcelain plaques copies from 17thC paintings. Intricately carved Bavarian rococo cabinets have shelves and brackets unknown on 18thC types. In most countries, decorative features from different periods are applied to large cupboards and wardrobes.
Leading makers: Pogliani, Milan, Fourdinois, Linke, Paris; Pssenbacher, Munich.
Copies and pastiches of French 18thC cabinets mounted in ormolu or imitations. True ormolu is cast, tooled bronze, gilded with amalgam of gold and mercury, fired to evaporate mercury and leave film of gold. Process repeated before final burnishing. Some areas may be left matt. Partly for economy, partly because mercury process highly poisonous, substitutes developed, e.g. bronze dipped in acid and lacquered; electrotypes
(Galvanoplastics); and electroplated nickel.
Belgian reproductions of Renaissance and baroque cupboards, carved with genre subjects, lion masks, fairly reasonable; marquetry cabinets expensive.
Dowel joints in place of mortise-and-tenon (see CONSTRUCTION) can only be detected if join is slightly open due to shrinkage. Method used on Continent earlier than in Britain, but not before 19thC.

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CABINETS AND CUPBOARDS About 1890-1940
Inlaid cabinet by Bugatti, about 1900-1910.
Walnut bookcases, asymmetrical and carved in the antique oak furniture dealer round with symbolist female nudes and plant forms are among only 20 pieces made in Paris by Carabin of Alsace that influence Messag’s work in bronze for Linke, and anticipate art nouveau designers. These include Cara-bin’s friend Gall& of Nancy, who utilizes plant forms, and Charpentier who uses nude figures and tree stems for his cabinets. Guimard, Gothic revival cabinet. about 1870.
Above right, pair of bun walnut bedside cupboards, 1930.
Majorette and van de Velde also design fine art nouveau case furniture for rich clients.
Bugatti of Milan displays cabinets of highly unusual designs, derived from Moorish and oriental sources, at Turin Exhibition, 1902, where art nouveau style peaks. After that, commercialized versions produced until about 1920 in most regions, but Holland rejects eccentricities in favour of sensible cupboards.
Meanwhile, in 1897, Viennese Sezessionist Movement is founded in reaction to prevailing academic approach. Two members – Hoffmann and Moser – start Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna Workshops) in 1903 to produce artistic furniture. Moser’s cabinets very 20thC, their angularity anticipating Bauhaus and Le Corbusier functionalism, but relieving it with abstract decoration that paves the half moon chest of 12 drawers way for Art Deco.
Le Corbusier (C-E Jeanneret) works in partnership with Charlotte Perriand whose wall units are geometric assemblies of cubic compartments. Eileen Gray, an Irishwoman based in Paris, designs cabinets of adaptable form, richly lacquered. Art Deco wardrobes handsome and functional, sideboards with cupboards often lumpy blocks jutting aggressively into room.
Mahogany less in favour except for reproductions, e.g. revival of Biedermeier, in Germany, early 20thC. Rosewood and walnut popular for art nouveau; oak, walnut, maple, for Art Deco.
Art nouveau: Good examples hand-made using traditional methods, cheaper ones factory-made with machined dovetails and so on. Many Bugatti pieces put together by his own idiosyncratic methods.
Modernist: Le Corbusier favoured machined work but many of his designs could only be carried out by hand.
Art Deco: Best cabinets hand-made, but popular, post-1930 versions mass-produced.
Art nouveau: Fine marquetry, good carving.
Modernist: Very little; Gropius (Bauhaus) inlaid mahogany wardrobes with brass lines.
Art Deco: Some marquetry and parquetry. Oxidized or chromium-plated handles.
Art nouveau: Wax or French polishing. Modernist: Painting,varnishing.
Art Deco: Varnishing, lacquering, French polishing.
Important examples (all styles) expensive. Best buys: hand-made 1930s cupboards.
Plywood backs may indicate low standard throughout. Some makers used it to good effect, but if infected with woodworm, much more difficult to treat successfully than solid wood.
Above, Art Deco cocktail cabinet, 1950s.

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