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Oak and other Furniture at Bonhams
Bonhams have two interesting sales coming up soon: The first, on the 3rd of June 2014 at Kidlington, Oxford, is titled The Oak Interior. Lot 162. A Charles II oak geometric chest of drawers, with painted decoration. The second sale, … Continue reading
In Which My Trousers Catch Alight
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my frequent banging-on about authenticity and reluctance or, more often, refusal to reproduce any piece of furniture until I can locate (at least an image of) an extant, unaltered example to … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Furniture Timbers
Tagged Age of Mahogany, Age of Oak, Age of Walnut, alder, apple, ash, burr elm, burr oak, burr yew, carcase, chest of drawers, chest on stand, chest-on-chest, cocus, elm, fruitwood, huanghuali, laburnum, mahogany, maple, oak, olive oysters, oysters, padauk, pear, pine, plum, poplar, princes wood, rosewood, sabicu, Scots mahogany, sycamore, teak, tiger maple, veneer, walnut, yew
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Picture This XXIX
There was a fashion in the late eighteenth-century to dress up oak case furniture with mahogany crossbanding; bureaux and bureau bookcases, low dressers, linen presses, mule chests and chests of drawers were amongst the recipients (fig. 1). Fig. 1. Mahogany-crossbanded … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged bureau bookcase, bureaux, chest of drawers, crossbanding, drawers, linen press, low dresser, mahogany, mule chest, oak, re-entrant corner
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Picture This XXVIII
I recently came across this provincial tripod table dating from the end of the eighteenth-century; made from mahogany and what, from its colour, appears to be alder or Scots mahogany. The circular dished and moulded table top is made from … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged alder, furniture beetle, mahogany, Scots mahogany, tripod table, woodworm
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George II Walnut Ladderback Chair – Part Four
The use of spirit and oil varnishes is documented well before the second quarter of the eighteenth-century whence this chair hails from. However, despite the protection and gloss that varnish affords furniture, chairs of this period often received nothing more … Continue reading
Posted in Seating
Tagged bottomer, oil varnish, rushes, spirit varnish, squab, walnut, wax polish
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