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A Gibson Chair
Woolley and Wallis are conducting their Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks auction in Salisbury, Wiltshire, tomorrow, Wednesday the 8th of January 2020. Amongst the many interesting items for sale is lot 65, an Irish ash and sycamore Gibson chair … Continue reading
Picture This CXXVII
This is yet another example of case furniture from The Age of Walnut that employs largely unfashionable or anomalous domestic timbers in its construction. Unlike the sophisticated George II elm cabinet-on-chest in Picture This XC, this chest (figure 1), though fashionable … Continue reading
The Rake’s Progress
The country round here is now officially in drought: It’s been the driest April on record and we’ve had only a third of the average rainfall so far this year. There’s been no grass of any worth in the paddocks … Continue reading
The Butler did it.
Wood has been used since time immemorial for making such things as rudimentary sticks for whacking animate and inanimate things with, to shelters and furniture etc. But wood really came into its own in the mid-nineteenth-century for creating the most … Continue reading
Posted in Distractions
Tagged ash, balsa, birch, Godwin Meade Pratt Swifte, larch, mahogany, screw, spruce, walnut
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Picture This CXV
I have mentioned dealer sophistry before, but specious descriptions of antique furniture are sadly becoming ever more prevalent (I will save a discussion on the possible reasons for another time). The vendor of the Windsor chair in figure 1 described … Continue reading
A Pair of Forest Chairs – Part Three
I bent the two arms from lengths of ash that were sawn from the straightest-grained board I could find. The back- and arm sticks were shaved from ash – as are the arm blades. The splats are of cherry and … Continue reading
A Pair of Forest Chairs – Part One
I want four or five Windsor chairs that can remain permanently outdoors on the front stoep of the new house. As I have blathered on about forest chairs on numerous occasions, I thought I would make a pair of them … Continue reading
Picture This CIV
A simple, stylish eighteenth-century comb-back Windsor chair comprising a D-shaped seat, one-piece bent arm, blade arm posts, plain crest rail and Goldsmith-esque legs with H-pattern stretchers. The seat, arm and crest rail appear to be sycamore and the remainder is … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques
Tagged ash, comb-back, forest chair, one-piece arm, sycamore, Windsor chair
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Picture This CII
This ash comb-back Windsor chair (fig. 1) is unusual in several respects, not least of which is the circular seat (fig. 2) which is of ash rather than the more traditional elm. Also, the bent arm is exceptionally broad. Fig. … Continue reading
Picture This XCIII
BADA (The British Antique Dealers’ Association) have partnered with art market specialists, The Curator’s Eye to launch the inaugural on-line BADA Auction on Thursday the 14th of July 2016. Some of BADA’s finest dealers have put up 413 lots that … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts
Tagged ash, BADA, burr ash, chest of drawers, horizontally stacked corner blocks, mahogany
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