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Tag Archives: mahogany
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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A George II Walnut Serpentine Chest – Part One
Towards the close of the seventeenth-century, rather heavy, solid wainscot (oak) furniture gave way to refined European walnut chairs, tables, mirrors and walnut-veneered wainscot and deal (pine) casework etc. Joined oak furniture was attractive enough, but somewhat workman-like and couldn’t … Continue reading
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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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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Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830
For my North American reader: Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 – an exhibition, August 19, 2016–January 8, 2017. Mahogany ‘desk and bookcase’ by Christopher Townsend, circa 1745–50. (Yale University) This groundbreaking exhibition presents a comprehensive survey … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Exhibitions
Tagged bureau bookcase, mahogany, North American furniture
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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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Picture This LXXXI Redux
The mahogany chest of drawers, lot 313, featured in Picture This LXXXI was passed in at Bonham’s The Scottish Sale in Edinburgh on the 13th of April 2016. However, it reappeared in their Homes & Interiors sale on the 22nd … Continue reading
Picture This LXXXIV
When I came across this mahogany chest of drawers, one of the first things I noticed was the feet (fig. 1) – if you click on the image and enlarge it, you can see the bracket feet have been re-tipped. … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged bracket feet, chest of drawers, horizontally stacked corner blocks, mahogany
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Picture This LXXXIII
In Bonhams’ Home & Interiors sale in Knightsbridge on the 24th of May 2016, lot 116 is catalogued as a “George III mahogany mule chest” (fig. 1) which may well be correct. Fig. 1. “George III mahogany mule chest”, (Bonhams) … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts
Tagged carcase, cock-beading, drawer, low dresser, mahogany, mule chest, runner
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Taxing Times
England invested an inordinate amount of money in building and maintaining a naval fleet to better protect her island shores and foreign interests during the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Government coffers were kept topped-up with monies raised through all manner of … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques
Tagged cockfighting, elm, lock, looking glasses, mahogany, stick chair, tax, thrown chair, walnut, Windsor chair
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