Search Pegs and ‘Tails
-
Recent Posts
Monthly Archives: November 2015
A William III Ash Chest-on-Stand – Part Three
The cabinetmaker’s insertion of the featherbanding in this chest would be considered – even by most of his contemporaries – as ‘wrong’. One can’t deny the proficiency of the man as a cabinetmaker constructing a basic chest, but it can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Case Furniture, Furniture Making
Tagged cabinetmaker, chest, clockwise, featherbanding, humidity, William and Mary, William III
12 Comments
Samuel Pepys Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum
As a reliable and valuable late seventeenth-century resource, I have quoted or cited Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) many times on this blog. The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich is currently running an exhibition, Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution from the 20th … Continue reading
Posted in 17th and 18th Century Culture, Exhibitions
Tagged Samuel Pepys, The National Maritime Museum
3 Comments
A William III Ash Chest-on-Stand – Part Two
I am never without something to occupy myself, but spring is a particularly active time of the year: Horses, foals (currently five, with another three due imminently), tree planting, tree watering, keeping the greens in order and a myriad of … Continue reading
Posted in Case Furniture, Furniture Making, Furniture Timbers
Tagged air-dried, ash, blue dash charger, carcase, chest on stand, crossbanding, drawers, featherbanding, pine, veneer, William and Mary, William III
15 Comments
Picture This LXVI
Since Picture This LXV was so well received, here’s another item of early English furniture for the sleuths to elucidate. Fig. 1. Oak desk on cabriole legs. (Bonham’s) It’s no good saying “… it’s George IV”; I want hard dates … Continue reading
UK’s Oldest Tree Undergoing Sex Change
I previously mentioned Scotland’s Fortingall Yew here. Well apparently there’s something queer going on with it: The UK’s oldest tree, thought to be up to 5,000 years old, is undergoing a “sex change”. Records have always noted the Fortingall Yew … Continue reading
Picture This LXV
Just for a bit of fun this time; before I offer my assessment of this oak and yew chest-on-stand, would anyone else care to interpret the images and propose a date? Fig. 1. Oak and yew chest-on-stand. (Tooveys) Fig. 2. … Continue reading
Today a Prince (of Orange)
William III, the sovereign Prince of Orange, was born at Binnenhof, The Hague, in the Dutch Republic on the 4th of November 1650. William ruled over England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702 when he was … Continue reading
Pegs and 'Tails 