BIEDERMEIER FRUITWOOD FOOTSTOOL - FRENCH MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT - DUTCH MAHOGANY TEA BUCKET - REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU WALL CANDELABRA - VENETIAN LOOKING-GLASS

AN UNUSUAL MAHOGANY CABINET in three parts, glazed antique pottery dealer the upper part with a pair of doors with plain mirror panels enclosing an adjustable shelf, antique mexican furniture the centre section with two short and one long drawer and the lower section with two long drawers, antique russian on short square tapering legs, antique france furniture 5ft. Win. high by 3ft. 6in. wide (178cm. by 108cm.) circa 1800, types of antique possibly Dutch East-Indies.
*** The style suggests North Europe, thomas hope furniture possibly Germany or Russia; the fact that the drawer linings are in solid teak suggests an Eastern origin.

A BRASS AND BRONZE INKWELL in the form of a sphere supported by three greyhounds joined by chains, antique percussion broomhandle pistol on a circular base, myott son & co willow imperial semi porcelain 5in. high (13cm.) 19th Century.

A DUTCH TOLE-PEINTE TEA BUCKET, antique chair grotesques the circular body decorated with chinoiserie scenes in gold on a black ground, card tables/table top patterns on a concave-sided stem and triangular scrolled plinth similarly
decorated, antique glass electric lamps lft. 7V4in. high by lft. lin. wide (49cm. by 33cm.) circa 1800.

A DUTCH MAHOGANY TEA BUCKET, light colored antique furniture the circular reeded rim with brass loop handle and liner, list of chippendale furniture characteristics the sides pierced in the form of leaves, antique ford part on a turned stem and triangular base with lion
paw feet, antique reproduction entertainment armoires lft. 9in. high by lft. l3/an. wide (53cm. by 34cm.) circa 1810.

A DIRECTOIRE MAHOGANY SEMAINIER, antique china punch bowl set with galleried white marble top, antique baker table the seven drawers and sides panelled in brass and the rounded corners inset with brass fluting, william hutton & sons sugar tongs fiddle pattern on toupie feet,
4ft. 5in. high by 2ft. 6in. wide (135cm. by 76cm.) circa 1790.

A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE CHENETS of Louis XVI style each with a recumbent sphinx, antique victorian cast iron bed manufacturers f.r. co the bases mounted with female masks and foliage, san francisco antique mall on spirally reeded tapering feet, danish claw feet sugar tongs 12in.
high by 14in. wide (30cm. by 36cm.) 19th Century.

A FRENCH MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT with grey fossil marble top and a frieze drawer above a fall-front and a pair of doors, antique queen anne easy chair flanked by projecting tapering pilasters with
brass female mask busts, stickley end side table on giltwood paw feet, antique furniture semi round cabinet 4ft. 9in. high by 3ft. 6in. wide (145cm. by 107cm.) circa 1810, antique mall maryland interior removed.

A MINIATURE WALNUT-VENEERED COMMODE, trestle base gateleg table small with a shallow drawer in the ogee frieze above three long drawers, was marquetry popular in the 1930s on moulded bracket feet, antique southwest gas pump lft. 3in. high by lft. 71/2in. wide (39cm. by
49cm.) circa 1820, single 9 ct gold pearl ring French or German.

A DUTCH MARQUETRY TOILET MIRROR STAND, mainstreet antique the Gothic supports and pair of small drawers oultined with ribbed mouldings, pair of satinwood and mahogany chests inlaid throughout with flowers, intricately carved antique ladies writing desk by scottish furniture maker lft. Hin. wide (58cm.) circa
1820, stickley cherry plate missing.

A DUTCH MAHOGANY WARDROBE, antique car classic ebay with an ogee comice with rounded corners and a pair of panelled doors, antique automobile club america 7ft. high by 5ft. lin. wide (214cm. by 155cm.) with late 19th Century inlay of
ribbon-tied chains of flowers and urns.

AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT stamped G. Meneau, antique shelf with dowel with rectangular granite top, antique toledo scale a drawer in the frieze above a fall-front enclosing a fitted archi¬tectural interior
with mirror back, blackamoor restauration italy the lower part with a pair of doors enclosing three drawers, antique slide projectors on solid U-shaped feet, limousin inkwell 4ft. 2in. high by 3ft. 2in. wide (141cm. by 98cm.) circa 1820
*** G. Meneau is unrecorded.

A BIEDERMEIER WALNUT COMMODE with a long drawer in the projecting frieze, antique cupboard kitchen two further drawers below and Square tapering feet, antique hakata doll 2ft. lO’Mn. high by 3ft. 9in. wide (88cm. by
115cm.) circa 1825.

A BIEDERMEIER FRUITWOOD FOOTSTOOL, antique furniture auctions melbourne with padded top and scroll legs, antique nightgown 13ft. 4in. long (40cm.) circa 1825, vintage kidney shaped desk German or Austrian.

AN EMPIRE HANGING KOLZA OIL LIGHT, antique french chairs the dished body supporting twelve eagles’ heads each in turn supporting a candle-nozzle in the form of flames, carousel antique the shallow dished body headed
by a finial and faced on the underside with leaves and a leafy bob finial, atlantique cabaret loire restaurant viaouest with original six chains and gilt ceiling Corona, chinese art deco ceramics 3ft. high by lft. Win. diam. (92cm. by 56cm.) circa 1815.

A PAIR OF CHARLES X BRONZE AND ORMOLU CANDELABRA each with three ormolu flower-cast horn shaped arms, antique car vintage wanted supported by a wreath held in the upstretched arms of a winged female figure Standing on an engine-turned ball and well cast circular stem and Square base, cromwellian reproduction chair lft. 8in. high (51cm.) circa 1820.

ANOTHER PAIR, antique seth thomas bracket clock matching, doll antique lft. 8in. high (51cm.) circa 1820.

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MARBLE URNS, louis xiii furniture the finials in the form of clustered berries and with bronzed ring handles at the sides, antique bentwood oak chair with arms on rectangular bronze bases, upholstered antique chairs 14in. high (37cm.) circa 1800.

A BIEDERMEIER YEW-WOOD VENEERED SMALL CHEST OF DRAWERS with two banks of four drawers, thomas germain 1742 king louis the xiv antique golden cup surmounted by a small drawer in the top and with a larger drawer in the base, ecritoire davenport lft. 9in. high by Ift. 7in. wide (54cm. by 48cm.) circa 1830, table england drawer German.

A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND BRONZE URNS, british pedestal sideboard each with snake and wreath handles, antique lamps the bodies mounted with leopards eating fruit, antique chair high backed wheels on leaf-cast socles and square bases, antique lamp witjh candle holder Hin. high
(28cm.) circa 1820.

A BRASS CHANDELIER with six double-scroll arms each supporting a drip-pan and nozzle and with a small flowerhead banding supporting a finial, antique art collectible crystal glass glassware the reel-shaped stem with a ball at
the base and surmounted by a double headed eagle, chest of drawers on legs 2ft. VMn. high by lft. Hin. diam. (64cm. by 58cm.) 19th Century, antique handcrafted reproduction probably Flemish.

A GOOD PAIR OF LARGE REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU WALL CANDELABRA, lusterware china identification each with three leaf-cast S-scroll arms and with circular flat drip-pans and leaf-cast nozzles supported on a leafy
grotesque mask backplate, antique ford hub cap lft. 2in. high by lft. lOin. wide (37cm. by 56cm.) mid-19th Century.

A GERMAN WALNUT TALL CHEST, lions head carved antigue dining table the bow front with five long drawers, springfield ohio antique extravaganza with rococo gilt-bronze handles and lock-plates, ladies mahogany victorian chair when made? 3ft. Hin. high by 3ft. 5in. wide (120cm. by 104cm.) circa
1740, jacobian antique dresser later feet.

A CARVED GILTWOOD LOOKING-GLASS with a moulded frame decorated with scrolls, antique honda 2 seater sports car flowerheads and leaves with a pierced cresting, antique electronic supplies the base centred by a triple candle-branch, antique truck parts 3ft. 2in. high by lft. WMn. wide (97cm. by 57cm.) mid-18th Century, french bouille table inlaid with mother of pearl and having ormolu possibly South German, antique tractor classified candle-branch later, antique dealer directory french furniture piece style distressed.

A VENETIAN LOOKING-GLASS, tantiques, three legged tables that extend the rectangular plate with engraved and eut border glasses, gold suface antique button the cresting engraved with a figure and with shaped engraved Surround, furniture/tambour commode 2ft. 8in. high by lft. 4in. wide (81cm. by 42cm.) part 18th Century.

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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 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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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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