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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) 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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CABINETS AND WARDROBES
About 1890-1920
Oak corner display cabinet, Buckley, c,1910.
The end of the edward, john & william barnard silver cream jug 19th and the antique ornate beginning of the lord and taylor having difficulties? 20thC see traditional craftsmanship gradually giving way to the antique meat scales new age of industrial design and mass production.
By 1887, the firearms antique Phoenix Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was said to have the antique road show ontario canada most advanced machinery in the faux finish antique white country, devoted to turning out a huge range that included cupboards, wardrobes and cabinets in all the antique equipment photography popular period styles, as well as simple types that anticipated the antique bottles with gold leaf decoration work of the late georgian english furniture craft communities in the spanish 18th century pottery Mission style. From 1907, the advertisement antique beer Greene brothers designed furniture made by the antique cars clive cussler Peter Hall company, Pasadena, combining Eastlake’s principles with those of G. Stickley’s Craftsman Workshops, and including glass-fronted cabinets built into panelled rooms.
Craft communities: Mainly oak, some ash. Manufacturers: Mainly mahogany; ebony.
Gothic evival bookshelves with every joint mortised and tenoned.
CABINETS, CUPBOARDS, BOOKCASES AND WARDROBES
Craft communities: Traditional methods, leaving tenons, dovetails and butterfly joints exposed.
Manufacturers: Machine-cut dovetails, increased use of dowels in place of tenons; doors glazed with single sheets of glass.
Craft communities: Carving used sparingly.
Manufacturers: Carving and marquetry, some of it machine-work. Greene brothers used inlay in ebony, silver and semi-precious stones.
Roycroft Comunity, East Aurora, used a finish that was kept secret, and hung the antique corn elboydny.com stove stove doors of cupboards with exposed copper hinges. Other craft centres used stains, some of them coloured. Traditional pieces French-polished.
Some of the original antique vanity best designer bookcases, cabinets and wardrobes of this period were built-in and difficult to remove, but many free-standing items appear on the antique blowtorches market and if awkwardly proportioned, may sell reasonably. Stickley pieces still under-priced.
If cabinets in the www.dropleaf tables.ie neo-classical style are more to your taste than craft furniture, but authentic Federal items are beyond your budget, give serious thought to the discount antiques reproductions made 1890-1920. The earlier ones are now over 100 years old and qualify as antiques in their own right.
CABINETS AND WARDROBES About 1920-1940
Painted cabinet, about 1929.
Industrial design rationalizes cabinets and wardrobes to the antique button light push switch point where they would all be as featureless as the antique camera on ebay broom cupboard, were it not for the georgian glass fronted display case sometimes garish but humanizing influence of Art Moderne.
Wardrobes have flush surfaces and tend increasingly to be built-in units. The functional style is best expressed in display cabinets and bookcases with sliding, plate-glass, frameless doors. The Art Moderne style is typified by a 20thC invention that may be seen as a symbol of the automata singing birdsantique music boxes jazz age – the oak library table 7 ft antuque cocktail cabinet.
Plywood, veneered in pale woods – maple, satinwood, birch – used extensively for flush surfaces, especially for curved ends of cocktail Craftsman hinge.
Exposed tenon,frame to give false impression of panelled construction.
The functional school rejected decoration on principle; Art Moderne used marquetry in exotic materials, occasional carving of futuristic motifs.
Clear cellulose spray. Bold use of paint or lacquer in contrasting colours. Chromium plated handles and fittings.
Better pieces made between the hepplewhite dresser with rail wars are no longer mere ’second-hand’ and should be assessed according to their merits like those of any other period. No serious collector –not even a total abstainer – should be without a ’30s cocktail cabinet.
Above, 1930s cocktail cabinet.
MODERN FAKES
Anything that is fashionable is liable to be faked. This is now beginning to apply to Art Moderne, but most of the antique post cards price lists copies are of kitsch. The good pieces were of high quality and expensive when new, so are less easy to reproduce cheaply, but do not assume that, because a thing belongs to a time within living memory, it must necessarily be genuine.
cabinets. Fine timber used in the antique furniture jakarta reproduction solid almost exclusively for architect-designed, custom-built pieces. Plate glass widely used for shelves, mirror glass for lining backs of display and cocktail cabinets, both types very often electrically illuminated.
Above, built-in display cabinet with sliding doors, 1930s.
Plywood used for backs and drawer-bottoms and in three different ways for exposed surfaces: I pinned to front of solid frame; 2 as panel set in rebated frame; 3 pinned to back of 1930s wardrobe.

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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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