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Picture This CXLVII
All right sleuths; let’s be having your opinions again please. Fig. 1. (Box House) Fig. 2. (Box House) Fig. 3. (Box House) Fig. 4. (Box House) Fig. 5. (Box House) Fig. 6. (Box House) As per usual, I may withhold … Continue reading
Picture This CXXX
This walnut secretaire chest-on-chest caught my eye recently; described by its vendor as circa 1740 and with original brasses. Fig. 1. Mid eighteenth-century walnut secretaire chest-on-chest… Fig. 2. … and with secretaire drawer open. Fig. 3. Interior of secretaire drawer. … Continue reading
Picture This CXVII
I mentioned in Chest Invection and Picture This LIVI how, due to changes in tastes, the elevated chests from chests-on-stands and chests-on-chests often found themselves standing on the floor on newly acquired bun- or bracket feet – and conversely, how … Continue reading
Picture This CVIII
I have previously mentioned cross-grained mouldings (here and here) which, though somewhat out-of-period, are authentic. The walnut chest-on-chest below is from the second quarter of the eighteenth-century and displays customary cross-grain banding and vertical veneer on the drawer fronts. Fig. … Continue reading
Picture This CIII
Like the George III mahogany serpentine chest of drawers in Cross-Grained Mouldings, this unusual little mahogany chest-on-chest from the third quarter of the eighteenth-century displays an out-of-period cross-grained moulding (figs. 1 & 2) – one of the latest examples of … Continue reading
Picture This LX
Continuing on from Picture This LIVI, I was perusing Bonham’s catalogue of their upcoming Arts and Antiques sale in Oxford on the 9th of September and thought the following lots worthy of discussion. Lot 481 is catalogued as “A 19th … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts, Picture This
Tagged book-matched, cabriole legs, chest of drawers, chest on stand, chest-on-chest, geometric moulding, oak, veneer, walnut
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Picture This LIVI
In Chest Invection I described how elevated chests occasionally found their own feet, and then yesterday I came across this beautifully patinated English walnut chest of drawers (fig. 1), advertised by a North American dealer and described as “George I… … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged bracket feet, chest of drawers, chest-on-chest, elm, mahogany, moulding, walnut
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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 XXVI
I mentioned in Chest Invection how some, originally floor-standing, chests of drawers occasionally found their way up onto unrelated floor-standing chests and stands in order to address a paucity of chests-on-chests and chests-on-stands in the marketplace. The image below illustrates … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged bun foot, chest of drawers, chest-on-chest, spigot, spigot hole
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