Early 19th Century Furniture

A beautiful, important column in black and white veined marble with a base and finial in pure white Carrara marble. The veins combine in a fascinating weave to form an elegant abstra...

Featuring intricately woven motifs and emblems on a mixture of beige and green backgrounds through the centre. A highly-detailed layered border then encloses the handmade carpet. This high-quality Afghan tribal rug...

Unusual quality antique Victorian 19th century Staffordshire figure of Samson and the lion, having a quality Staffordshire figure hand painted in stunning green, black, red, white, b...

Beautiful set of 6 fruit knives / dessert knives, mother-of-pearl handle, vermeil blade and collar (sterling silver covered with fine gold). Early 19th Century production, Restaurati...

Charming Danish Pewter Bowl or Planter With Handle and Makers Mark Circa 1800. This handmade piece would look wonderful sitting on a window sill holding ...

Antique fine quality Georgian C1800 mahogany tilt top wine or side table with drawer One of the best that you will find. Solid with no loose joints and the catch works. A char...

Elegant yet inviting, these candlesticks from Tiffany Studios New York feature a regal blue and silver color scheme, making them a charming enhancement to any collector's display, ta...

Very nice early 19th century southern Cherry inlay slant front desk probably Tennessee or Kentucky 1820-30. String inlay on the lid and drawer fronts, inlay banding around the bottom...

This is a very good large size Hydra jug or Pitcher made by the Davenport Company of Longport, Staffordshire, England in the late Georgian period, circa 1805-1820, made of Ironstone ...

Commemorative Staffordshire pitcher celebrating the coronation of the Prince Regent as George IV. The pitcher has a patterned field surface decoration centering on a cobalt blue circ...

Tole tea tray with black lacquered ground with decoration centering on a rectangular reserve with two classically draped women in a pastoral landscape. The shallow rolled rim is embe...

'The Stamford Raffles Secretaires.' A pair of Japanese Kyoto-Nagasaki style export lacquer secretaires by ‘Lakwerker Sasaya’ each with the name ‘Ol...

Straightlined, unadorned Biedermeier side table in cherry wood from south Germany around 1820. Cherry veneered on softwood and solid cherry wood. Ebonized outer edge of the top plat...

This Magnificently charming Tyrolean dowry wardrobe is most likely crafted by a local cabinet maker and painted by a local painter in the style of Tyrolean folk art...

A pair of Creil Theo's plates in the neoclassical style with the cut corners. France, 1810 to 1820.

Age: 1800 - 1850 Furniture Style: English Regency (1762 - 1830) Overall Dimensions: Closed: 30" x 76" x 46", Two Extension leaves: 22"for overall 120" Early 19th C English Regency...

French mahogany dining table from the early 19th century, Empire style, with four elegant hand-carved Louis Philippe mahogany chairs of the same age, still usable. Elegant table with...

This Tiffany Studios New York centerpiece, features deep-blue green iridescent Favrile glass, decorated with a iridescent green leaf and vine decoration. The charming piece features ...

A smaller-sized French burl wood veneered commode, with its original marble top, from the early 19th century. This antique chest from France retains its original black marble top, wh...

An English Regency c.1820 giltwood and ebonised convex mirror. The original wonderfully foxed mercury plate within a reeded ebonised slip, surrounded with a giltwood tube punctuated ...

A fine set of 8 Georgian Hepplewhite style carved mahogany shield back dining chairs of good colour and condition. With serpentine fronts, drop in upholstered seats, affording comfor...

French Art Nouveau marquetry "Aux Grenouilles" umbrella stand, by Emile Gallé. This stand for umbrellas and walking sticks incorporates frog (Grenouille) handles and feet in cast bro...

Original Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) Edo period 19th century, woodblock print, titled Fond of Children (Kodomo-zuki), from the series Eight Views of Favourite Things Today (Tosei ko...

Kang Xi blue gilt vase lamps. Antique Chinese vases in powder blue with gilt pattern overlay with flowers bordering reserves with further floral vase decorations and pair large panels...

A fine antique Chinese export porcelain serving tray. In the Canton pattern. Decorated in underglaze blue depicting a mountainous Chinese village. The background has houses, a moun...

Glasgow, Edward Khull & Co, Printer, 1818. A complete four volume set of the works of Josephus including "Jewish Antiquities" and "The Jewish War". Translated from the Greek. Bound...

A Bidri metal alloy mortar, India, early 19th Century. The urn shaped mortar incised and silver inlaid, with a continuous architectural motif, enclosing further window like motif, su...

Hello, We would like to offer you this truly exquisite, early Biedermeier walnut commode. The piece was made in Vienna circa 1825. Viennese Biedermeier is distinguished by their sop...

Columnar form and painted black with gilt highlights. Signed by maker on side of base. Two light with used shades in relatively good condition.

An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique George III Newcastle sterling silver mugs; an addition to our range of diverse Georgian Newcastle silverware. These exceptional antique George III Newcastle sterling silver mugs have has a panelled octagonal form. The surface of each Georgian silver mug is embellished panels of bright cut engraved stylised floral sprays, incorporating a vacant shaped cartouche to the anterior segment. The plain panelled foot and upper rim of the body are encompassed with bands of applied moulded decoration. The mug is fitted with an impressive scroll handle, enveloped with an impressive leaf design incorporating a scrolling thumbpiece. The interior of each mug retains the original gilding. Such desirable octagonal examples, crafted in a pair and in Newcastle silver, are rare to the market. Condition This antique mug...

Elegant Box in Birch with Brass details. Period design, Karl Johan from early 19th Century in Sweden. Beautiful inside in decorated paper. Wear consistent with age and use

A very fine early 19th century Irish mahogany centre / dining table, above a reeded rim, raised on a reeded baluster centre pillar and reeded outsplayed quadruped base, with cast bra...

19th Century Rustic Country French Writing Table represents the essence of the rural craftsman's trade! Utilizing readily available old-growth oak, the artisan created a top with th...

A French Empire period floral pastel and gouache painting from the early 19th century, in giltwood frame. This French painting features an exquisite depiction of a bouquet of flowers...

Rectangular crown molding over a scalloped apron and three shelves. The conforming base with seven drawers with brass bail handles raised on turned legs with lower pot shelf. Block f...

Circular with great rich patina and unusual turned legs joined by a triangular stretcher.

A fine example of an English oak and yew wood hoop back style armchair. England, circa 1825-1850. In excellent condition, sturdy and sound.

The elongated cabriolet legs add a charming touch to this side table with single drawer from the Swedish countryside. The original blue painted finish has distressed softly over gene...

An outstanding pair of European Renaissance Gothic grotesque lion stylobate architectural elements. Early 19th Century or earlier, Continental Europe, most likely Italian, boldly d...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, totally original, finest quality Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 Davenport desk wi...

Outstanding quality pair of antique Japanese bronze lidded vases, having a quality pair of Japanese baluster bronze vases decorated with foliage and birds, flanked by twin dragon han...

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, antique Colonial Gillows of Lancaster Attributed solid Rosewood dining chairs with ornately carved back splats Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide and covers London only for the UK and local Europe for the rest of the world, if you are outside of this area please send me your address and I will provide you with an accurate quote Where to begin, if you’re looking at this listing then the chances are you know exactly how significant this suite is, Gillows of Lancaster & London was simply put, one of the most important furniture designers in the history of England, these chairs are the only Colonial examples I have ever seen and in Rosewood no less, they weigh roughly three times more than a standard dining chair of the same style and size, they are very substantial The chairs early 19th century circa 1810-1820, the carving is exquisitely executed and the chairs look sophisticated and elegant from all angles The suite has been sympathetically restored to include a deep clean, hand condition wax and hand polish, the seat covers have been left as they are, they are fine, the timber has a wonderfully aged patina that is honestly sublime Dimensions Height:- 81cm Width:- 45cm Depth:- 50cm Seat height:- 44cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point. Lot Essay These chairs are closely related to those in two recognised Chippendale commissions: Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet for Normanton Hall, Rutland and William Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries (4th Earl of Stair, 1699-1768) for Dumfries House, Ayrshire. THE RELATED CHAIRS The chairs are of identical decoration to the set of two armchairs and ten single chairs, circa 1765, formerly at Normanton Hall (1). In 1759, Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet, succeeded to the vast inheritance established by his grandfather, also Gilbert, 1st Baronet (1652-1733), who was reputed to be ‘the richest commoner in England’ (2). The 3rd Baronet employed both Chippendale Senior and his son, Chippendale Junior, in the furnishing of his Palladian mansion, Normanton Hall in Rutland, and his London houses, 29 Grosvenor Square, London and Browne's House at North End, Fulham. Surviving Chippendale accounts, although incomplete, show that the firm was working periodically for members of the Heathcote family from 1768 to 1821. Most of the furniture listed in these accounts was intended for Browne’s House, although after 1798 when the family relinquished this residence some of the furniture was moved to Normanton Hall. The latter was sold in 1924, and any furniture not included in the Normanton Hall sale was taken to the Earl of Ancaster’s seat at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. Chippendale’s earliest invoice for Sir Gilbert Heathcote records the acquisition in 1768 of ‘6 India Back and arm chairs Japand to imitate the Bamboe’, signifying how the family embraced the highly fashionable chinoiserie taste. Although the Normanton chairs cannot be conclusively identified in the extant Chippendale accounts, their form and ornamentation led Christopher Gilbert to suggest that they were possibly by Chippendale (3). The set of four mahogany chairs at Dumfries House have nearly-identical pagoda-form cresting rails and identical terminals but differ in the arrangement of the 'Chinese' paling in the backs and side panels. Although no documentary evidence for the Dumfries chairs survives, in their execution and sophisticated carving of the toprails, they are extremely close to Chippendale’s hand. Another near-set of closely related chairs is at Saltram House, Devon, where Chippendale worked between 1771-2; these dates are based on payments in John Parker's cash account book, and probably do not reflect a true picture of the entire commission as Parker often paid tradesmen by banker's draft (4). Comprising two armchairs and seven single chairs, this set, circa 1765, is made of padouk, and has been described by the National Trust as ‘Chinese Export’ (5). The set was returned to Saltram in 1951 having been accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951). Some of the chairs are currently on display in ‘The Chinese Chippendale Bedroom’. A further set of four padouk chairs of the Saltram pattern was almost certainly at Kenwood House, London; some of these are recorded in 18th century inventories drawn up by Lord Mansfield. This set was removed to Scone Palace, Perth, prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922, and subsequently sold from ‘Scone Palace and Blairquhan: The Selected Contents of Two Great Scottish Houses’, Christie’s, London, 24 May 2007, lot 298. Another pair of padouk chairs of this model sold ‘The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller’, Christie’s, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 647 ($193,750 inc. premium). THE DESIGN Conceived in the Chinese manner expounded by William and John Halfpenny in Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1752), and Sir William Chambers in his Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils (1757), the pattern for this set of ‘Pagoda’ chairs relates to nine designs for ‘Chinese Chairs’ in the 1st edition of Chippendale’s Director (1754); the cabinet-maker describes these designs thus: Plates XXIII, XXIV and XXV are nine Chairs in the present Chinese manner, which I hope will improve that taste, or manner of work; it having yet never arrived to any perfection; doubtless it might be lost without feeling its beauty: as it admits of the greatest variety, I think it the most useful of any other. The sizes are all specified on the designs. The three last (No. XXV.) I hope will be well received, as there has been none like them yet made. The Georgian period witnessed the proliferation of such railed and pagoda-crested chairs in both the ‘picturesque’ Chinese tea pavilions of landscaped parks as well as in fashionable apartments hung with ‘India’ paper. The geometric ‘Chinese’ feet of these chairs are also found on a set of pedestals...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely, restored Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 tilt top Chessboard Chess table with Rosewood Frame an...

This is a superb example of the neoclassical daybed or recamier that dates to the Swedish Biedermeier Period. The recamier is in overall very good condition. It is upholstered in a n...

Early 19th Century Rustic Country French Coffee Table was literally designed to last for centuries! Hand-crafted from dense, old-growth oak, it features thick solid planks for the t...

A large and fine pair of rosewood Regency armchairs, each with square backs and shell and scroll carved cresting rail, scrolling lion’s head arm supports and turned, gadrooned legs, ...

The lovely appeal of this bow front corner cabinet is due to the elegant Swedish styling and deep rich patina of the naturally aged pine. The cabinet is made in two sections, both cr...

A charming trompe l’oeil faience plate with melon and fig decoration in the style of Bernard Palissy, circa 1800. Decorated and scalloped edge plate.

Early 19th century trestle or “Saw Buck” table. Made of Pine with a beautiful lustrous honey colored patination, good wide top over “X” formed base with central stretcher. Made in En...

A handsome wine table or candlestand in walnut on tripod pedestal base with turned column resting on cabriole legs. European, possibly Dutch or German, circa 1825. Measurements: 20 ...

This is a beautiful mid 19th century French coffee table. The walnut wood gives it a nice warm tone and with such amazing patina. A single drawer to hold all the remotes we have to d...

3 Volumes. D.B. Warden, Statistical, Political & Historical Account of the United States of America from the Period of their First Colonization to the Present Day. Bound in 3/4 tan c...

Made to be transported with folding top and detachable turned tapered legs with brass caps.

A very fine triple fusee quarter chiming bracket clock in an ebonised case in remarkable original condition. The eight day triple fusee movement with anchor escapement and long heavy bob pendulum and hold fast, chimes on a nest of eight graduated bells with a seperate bell to strike the hours. The movement also has a pull correction lever. The cream painted roman dial is fitted behind the original convex glass held in with a brass ogee bezel, the case has front and rear locks with the movement visible through a glaze back door. The movement is housed in an oak case veneered in ebonised fruitwood with brass case decorations and fish scale sound frets backed with yellow silk, the break arch top is surmounted by a single brass bound pad. The dial and back plate both signed by Thomas Bray, the movement is also stamped J Thwaites 4677 on the front plate behind the dial. This leads us to believe this is one of the two clocks recorded as being made by Thwaites for Thomas Bray to retail. The serial number can be traced in the Thwaites day books and dates the clock to 1811. John Thwaites was a prolific clock maker who specialised in quarter chiming and musical clocks often manufacturing movements for some of London’s most prestigious clock makers. John Thwaites was Master of the Clockmakers Company in 1815, 1819 and 1820, his company eventually went on to found the famous Thwaites and Reed company. Examples of Thomas Bray’s work can be found in the British Museum, John Thwaites clocks...

Impressive Georgian silver five basket table centrepiece designed with a large central basket and four outer baskets all held by fabulous scrolling floral branches. The stunning tap...

Secretaire a abattant, France circa 1820, Biedermeier period. The outside with fall front and two drawers flanked by two ebonized columns shows a beautiful oak veneer design. The woo...

This is a very good hexagonal Platter or Large Plate / Dish in the Japan pattern Number 13, made by Hicks and Meigh of Shelton, Staffordshire, England between 1812 and 1822, probably...

Rare antique Swedish sideboard. The sideboard is unusually low and made in gustavian style. It is an authentic country house furniture from 1834 made in Hälsingland. The frame is mad...