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Auction Result – Christie’s 5th July 2018
The mahogany chest of drawers (lot 13) mentioned in Christie’s Thomas Chippendale: 300 Years realised GBP 137,500 (AUD 246,087, USD 181,789) against a pre-auction estimate of GBP 60,000 – GBP 100,000 (AUD 107,402 – AUD 178,996, USD 79,331 – USD 132,219). … Continue reading
Quote of the Week
[…] Thomas Chippendale. His designs reached both sides of the Atlantic […][1] Jack Plane [1] Nichols House Museum, Boston.
Picture This C
“All craftsmen make blunders, but what separates the truly great ones is the ability to redress their mistakes.” Regular reader, Burbidge, emailed me about an aspect of the mahogany linen press in figure 1. It conforms closely to the drawing … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged Chippendale, horizontally stacked corner blocks, linen press, mahogany, S-shaped escutcheons
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Of Superlative Mahogany Furniture and Oiled, Ripped Bodies
In the introductory paragraph of his description of a Chippendale period gentleman’s press, Oxfordshire antiques dealer, David Harvey began: I suppose the name Chippendale is to many synonymous with male strip tease shows […] Jack Plane
Chair-Back Settees
A popular form of mid- to late eighteenth-century seating was the chair-back settee, in double-, triple-, and quadruple-back formats. Fig. 1. George II Irish mahogany double chair-back settee, circa 1740. (O’Sullivan Antiques) Chair-back settees are constructed in much the same … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques
Tagged chair-back settee, Chippendale, continuous crest rail, Giles Grendey, Irish, paired-stile, stile
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Picture This VII
A reader enquired if I tidied up the sawn surfaces of the fretted sides of the Chippendale hanging shelves I made last year. I replied that I performed the minimum of cleaning up as that was how equivalent surfaces appear … Continue reading
Posted in Distractions, Furniture Making, Picture This
Tagged Chippendale, fretwork, hanging shelves
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Reproducing Some Chippendale Period Brasses
My happy association with fine British and Irish furniture over several decades has lead to some interesting finds and spoils through auctions and private dealings. A fortuitous encounter turned up a complete set of pristine, pure Chippendale handles (fig. 1). … Continue reading
Posted in Cabinet Fittings
Tagged backplate, bail, cast, chased, Chippendale, escutcheon, handle, lost wax casting, pommel, reproduction brasses, sand casting
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From a well known North American furniture brassware manufacturer’s website… “Chippendale was not exclusively a colonial American style, and furniture makers across the Atlantic created pieces with this look.” Jack Plane
What Nomenclature is this!
I was watching a video, produced by the Victoria and Albert Museum, on the subject of a Chippendale period chair, when I suddenly found myself hurling verbal abuse at the monitor and slapping my hand on the desk – have … Continue reading
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