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Chairs and Shelves at Christie’s
Christie’s are conducting The English Collector: English Furniture, Clocks and Portrait Miniatures at their King Street, London rooms on the 17th of November 2016. Amongst the furniture on offer is lot 152, a set of six George II fruitwood Windsor … Continue reading
Posted in Auction Alerts
Tagged chinoiserie, fruitwood, hanging shelves, mahogany, Windsor armchairs
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Trump-eter
Seemingly one of Donald Trump’s blowhard ancestors modelled for the seventeenth-century Flemish painter, Rubens. Peter Paul Rubens, Atalanta and Meleager (detail), circa 1616. (Metropolitan Museum) Source: Art History News Jack Plane
Picture This XCIX
From the ‘what were they thinking?’ files, comes this eighteenth-century Windsor chair. Primitive comb-back Windsor, circa 1780. (Robert Young) The keen-of-eye might have noticed the H-stretcher’s unusual (and original) orientation which must have been the cause of many a painful … Continue reading
Can you handle this?
I require a set of brass handles of the pattern illustrated above. Strangely, it’s not an uncommon pattern, yet I searched through my boxes of strays for comparable bails and backplates without any luck and I haven’t been able to … Continue reading
Picture This XCVII Redux
The dated walnut chest of drawers featured in Picture This XCVII realised £8,750 ($14,894) against a pre-auction estimate of £7,000 – £10,000 ($12,000 – $18,000). George II walnut chest, circa 1751. (Bonham’s) Chest top with dated inscription. (Bonham’s) Jack Plane
Posted in Antiques, Auction Results, Picture This
Tagged chest of drawers, dated furniture, walnut
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