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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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Picture This LXXXV
From a technical perspective, any wooden chair whose legs, back and arms (if existent) emanate from a solid seat is a Windsor chair. Here then is a pair of fruitwood Windsor chairs that are coming up for auction in Christie’s … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts
Tagged armchair, fruitwood, Hartwell chair, Windsor chair
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Picture This LXXVII
I am seeing forest chairs everywhere and am beginning to wonder if there are any Windsor chairs out there that aren’t painted. The striking lath-back armchair in figure 1 incorporates bold leg turnings (compare with the chairs here and here), … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged ash, comb-back, continuous-arm, crest rail, double bow, elm, forest chair, fruitwood, lath-back, leg turnings, one-piece arm, seat, splat, stretcher, walnut, Windsor chairs, Yealmpton chairs
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Picture This LXVII
Regular commenter on this blog, Burbidge, alerted me to a unique elm and fruitwood side chair at the Victoria & Albert Museum which incorporates several elements normally found in Windsor chairs (fig. 1). Fig. 1. Chunky chinoiserie elm and fruitwood … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This, Seating
Tagged chair, chinoiserie, Claremont chairs, elm, fruitwood, legs, seat, stiles, Victoria & Albert Museum, Windsor
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Picture This XLIII
Here’s another delightful little oddity from Bonhams’ upcoming Oxford sale on the 18th of February, 2015. The provincial fruitwood lowboy (lot 781) is a far cry from its sophisticated cosmopolitan cousins, but has undeniable charm natheless. George III fruitwood lowboy, … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts, Picture This
Tagged backplate, Bonhams, cabriole leg, club leg, escutcheon, fruitwood, keyhole, lowboy
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Picture This XLII
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my adoration of beautiful and unusual English and Irish furniture. This stylistically and dimensionally archetypal early George III chest is bizarrely yet handsomely veneered in fruitwood and yew. The chest (lot … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts, Picture This
Tagged Bonhams, chest of drawers, fruitwood, George III, Irish, yew
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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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A Double Bow Windsor Chair – Part One
I made my last Windsor chair primarily because I admired that particular regional style, but also because it didn’t comprise any steam-bent components. At the time I made the comb-back chair I no longer possessed the requisite steaming equipage and … Continue reading
Posted in Seating
Tagged ash, beech, cabriole, crinoline stretcher, double bow, elm, forest chair, fruitwood, Gothik, Prince of Wales feathers, Thames Valley
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A George II Elm Corner Cupboard – Part One
Mural corner cupboards survive in their thousands and reflect, in miniature, the styles of the broader spectrum of case furniture of the eighteenth-century; from the earliest wainscot specimens on the walls of manor houses, to sophisticated veneered and cross-grain-moulded walnut … Continue reading
Posted in Case Furniture
Tagged ash, corner cupboard, elm, fielded panel, fruitwood, H-hinge, pine, wainscot, walnut
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