Posts Tagged ‘Sheraton’
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 [...]
Tags: BOOKCASES, CABINETS, chippendale period, corner cupboards, Display, Display Cabinets, federal mahogany, marquetry, secretary desks, Sheraton, wardrobe, wardrobes
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
19th Century Antique Chest of Drawers
A bow fronted mahogany chest of drawers, c.1800, with ring handles and splayed feet.
A mahogany bow fronted chest of drawers, c.1800. This piece is of lower proportions, with deep drawers, and being thus somewhat smaller than the american antique art folk previous example, is in a [...]
Tags: Antique, antique chest of drawers, Chest, chest of drawers, drawer, drawer fronts, furniture, hepplewhite, mahogany, mahogany chest, military chest, satinwood, Sheraton, Velvet, walnut, wardrobe, Wellington
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
CANTERBURIES
The name Canterbury was originally given to a piece of mobile furniture named after one of the antique auction maine archbishops who liked the 33 antique rare record convenience this mobility provided for perhaps a rather sedentary nature. Sheraton illustrated a supper Canterbury which was the antique silverware value forerunner of [...]
Tags: Bamboo, burr, CANTERBURIES, century furniture, design features, drawer, furniture, furniture design, mahogany, mobile furniture, rosewood, Sheraton, walnut
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
SIDE CABINETS and credenzas
A Sheraton rosewood cabinet, only 3ft. high, with gilt enrichments to the antique vases italy pillars and mouldings and with a white marble top. The short tapered feet (en toupie) are of French origin and one can clearly see that in the baroque german cabinet 1820s the value [...]
Tags: 1820s, 1850s, boulle, cabinet, credenza, edwardian period, french origin, inlaid, mahogany, marble, marquetry, rosewood, rosewood cabinet, satinwood, Sheraton, side doors, walnut, Wedgwood
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