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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 XXVIII
I recently came across this provincial tripod table dating from the end of the eighteenth-century; made from mahogany and what, from its colour, appears to be alder or Scots mahogany. The circular dished and moulded table top is made from … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged alder, furniture beetle, mahogany, Scots mahogany, tripod table, woodworm
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Picture This IX
The chair illustrated below was recently offered for sale by an upmarket antiques dealer who described it as eighteenth-century Irish Chippendale, made from dense first growth mahogany. Fig. 1. A nice enough, though robust side chair. Stylistically, I don’t see … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged alder, Alnus glutinosa, chair, furniture beetle, Ireland, Irish, Irish Chippendale, mahogany, north of England, Scotland, Scots mahogany, Scottish
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