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Additional Examples of Maritime Case Furniture – Redux – the Second
I don’t know what the protocol for reducēs should be; is a redux of a redux still a redux or does it become a sequel? Anyway, following on from my recent post, Additional Examples of Maritime Case Furniture – Redux, another … Continue reading
Picture This CXX
Reader Pete Smithies drew my attention to another exceptionally shallow chest of drawers (figure 1). However, this one has not spent its life on the high seas. Fig. 1. George III mahogany chest of drawers, circa 1800. (Antique Atlas/Jonathon Drake) … Continue reading
Additional Examples of Maritime Case Furniture – Redux
Further to this comment I made in Additional Examples of Maritime Case Furniture, James Peill, the Curator of the Goodwood Collection at Goodwood House in West Sussex, very kindly sent me some images of the coffre fort in their collection (figure … Continue reading
Picture This LI
Bonhams have a number of interesting items coming up in The Oak Interior sale in Oxford on the 13th of May, 2015. One lot that caught my eye is this early seventeenth-century oak ship’s table (lot 106). Charles I oak … Continue reading
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Vice Admiral Hardy’s Writing Cabinet
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (1769-1839) served as Admiral Nelson’s flag captain and was with Nelson aboard the ‘Victory’ at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 on the occasion he was mortally shot. As Nelson lay dying on the deck, consoled … Continue reading
Nelson’s Pelagic Furniture
Horatio Nelson was a career sailor who, as Vice Admiral of the White Squadron of the Fleet, accrued a number of personal pieces of furniture befitting his status. England embraced the hero and as a result, many of his belongings … Continue reading
Cabin Fever
I do not know the dimensions, provenance, or any other details of this chest of drawers; however, its proportions (in particular, its depth) are certainly commensurate with other maritime case pieces. Shallow George III mahogany chest of drawers, circa 1745. … Continue reading
A Secretary all at Sea
Three key features point to this two-piece campaign chest as having been made for maritime use; the most obvious being its shallow 14-1/2″ depth. George IV brass-bound teak secretaire chest, circa 1820. (Richard Gardner) The second indication is the chest’s … Continue reading
Sea(t) Worthy
Continuing with the thread of blogs on maritime furniture, I came across this folding chair, typical of many used aboard warships in the late eighteenth-century, which were designed to be easily stowed during battle. Fig. 1. Mahogany Hepplewhite folding chair, … Continue reading
A Life on the Ocean Wave
Further to A Maritime Bureau?, Additional Examples of Maritime Case Furniture and A Third Sea Voyage, I recently came across this rather shallow, but otherwise full-size mahogany split chest of drawers. Fig. 1. Mahogany split chest, circa 1765. (Debenham Antiques) The chest being … Continue reading
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