Posts Tagged ‘chests of drawers’

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 [...]

18th Century Chest of Drawers and Chests

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

ANTIQUE 17th-18th CENTURY CHESTS OF DRAWERS
One of the antique cookoo clocks earliest forms of chest is illustrated above. This type is usually smaller than the antique latte hardware panelled type and was made from the antique snowmobiles fifteenth to the antique cloth doll seventeenth centuries. The sides are made of a [...]