Posts Tagged ‘CABINETS’

Antique Side Cabinet and Canterburies

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

CABINETS side, antique roses forum court cupboards, antique wooden crutches buffets and the like
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) [...]

Antique Side and Display Cabinets - Edwardian

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

CABINETS side and display, antique oak chest of drawers 1890-1930
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 [...]

High and Lower Side and Display Cabinets Reproductions

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Art Nouveau Side and Display Cabinets

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Victorian Side and Display Cabinets and Credenzas

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Antique Low and High Bookcases Cabinet

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

CABINETS bookcases, antique tripod table legs high
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, [...]

Antique American Bookcases and Cabinets

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

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 [...]

Antique French Cabinets and Cupboards Louis XVI

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Antique 19th Century Cabinets and Cupboards

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Art Deco Cabinets and Cupboards

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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 [...]