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Period: Late 18th Century
French Marble Column
Located in Essex, MA
The tall column sitting on a socle with square base.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Marble
18th Century Mahogany Large Pembroke Dining Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality And Unusually Large Late 18th
Century Mahogany Pembroke Dining Table Having
Well Figured Top With Two Hinged Flaps Over ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Mahogany Windsor Armchair
Located in London, GB
A George III mahogany Windsor armchair with pierced splat and saddle seat, circa 1775.
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Mahogany Chest with Brushing Slide
Located in Martlesham, GB
18th century mahogany chest of drawers, the moulded edge top above a brushing slide with turned brass knob handles, four graduated mahogany lined drawers b...
Category
1770s British Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Original Dutch Stoelklok with Verge Escapement Wall Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
Dutch Stoelklok
Arched bracket with two painted mermaids, gilded lead cresting moulded with two lions beside an armorial crest, side glazed windows ...
Category
1780s Dutch Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Brass
Fine 18th Century Irish Mahogany Long Case Clock
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A fine example of an 18th century mahogany long case clock with fantastic carved details to the hood and a flame mahogany door, the eight day ...
Category
1770s Irish Chippendale Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
William Plummer 1780s Georgian Sterling Silver Candle Snuffer / Pen Tray
By William Plummer
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An excellent, fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver candle snuffer / pen tray; an addition to our 18th century silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Georgian sterling silver candle snuffer tray has a navette shaped form.
The surface of this antique silver snuffer/pen tray is ornamented with a contemporary bright cut engraved crest depicting a centaur regardant holding and arrow on a bended bow, above the bright cut engraved initials 'WIL'.
The outer circumference of the surface is encompassed with an undulating wriggle work decorated border.
The raised rounded sides of the tray are embellished with pierced decorated urn designs conjoined by suspended bright cut engraved festoon ornamentation further accented with undulating pin struck decoration.
The tray is further embellished with an applied bead decorated border to the rim.
Either end of the tray incorporates an impressive pierced and applied scrolling leaf decorated handle accented with a pendant drop design to the inner surface.
This exceptional tray was crafted by the London silversmith William Plummer who is known for his work with pierced decoration.
The centaur in this stance is also a depiction of Sagittarius (otherwise known as Arcitenens), one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
Condition
This antique silver candle snuffer...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Sterling Silver
Early Coffee Cup Blue and White Boy on a Buffalo Ptn probably Spode, circa 1790
By Josiah Spode
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good, very early, rare blue and white coffee cup in the "Boy on a Buffalo" pattern, probably from the factory of Josiah Spode, stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England, made...
Category
Late 18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Earthenware
Lead Crystal cut Glass Mallet Decanter Three Neck Rings lozenge stopper, Ca 1790
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good, beautifully proportioned, crystal cut lead glass Spirit Decanter with a mallet shape and three flat cut neck rings, with its original lozenge stopper, circa 1790.
This decanter is really well proportioned and elegant, with the mallet taper shape, which first appeared in the George 111rd period from circa 1765. It has three spaced flat cut neck rings, which give a very good grip when pouring. The body has vertical fluting around the shoulder and a herringbone fringe of finer cuts around the base.
This decanter has its original lozenge cut stopper and is a very good fit to the decanter.
The decanter is made from Lead glass with a soft grey color.
This is a spirit or small wine decanter size having a Volume of about 500ml.
Overall, a late 18th century, very elegant, Georgian lead...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Cut Glass
Georgian Armchair Green Leather Seat, English Hepplewhite circa 1785
By George Hepplewhite
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good quality English armchair from the George III, Hepplewhite period, made circa 1785.
The hardwood, possibly red walnut, frame has a camel back with a well carved centra...
Category
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Antique Georgian Mahogany Demilune Tea Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A good quality late 18th century mahogany demilune shaped tea table of
Excellent color and patina with inlaid and banded decoration raised on
Elegant square tapered legs.
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Fine English Inlaid Mahogany Hepplewhite Period Pembroke Table with Drawer
Located in San Francisco, CA
A fine English inlaid mahogany Hepplewhite period oval pembroke table of typical form, the crossbanded top with 2 drop sides over a single drawer, supported on square tapered legs en...
Category
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Brass
Georgian Mahogany Baby Pembroke Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An early 19th century Georgian mahogany baby pembroke table
having shaped and crossbanded two flap top above frieze drawers
to front and reverse wi...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Mahogany Georgian Boat Shaped Canterbury
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality George III Period Mahogany
boat shaped Canterbury having one drawer To
Frieze with replacement brass knobs raised on
elegant square tapered legs with
original...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Armchair Carved Inlaid Walnut, English Sheraton circa 1790
By Thomas Sheraton
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This a fine handmade English, George 111rd, Sheraton period hardwood, possibly walnut armchair with good carved detail and reupholstered drop in seat, dating to the late 18th century...
Category
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Fabric, Hardwood, Boxwood
18th Century Sterling Silver Locking Tea Caddy
By Michael Plummer
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver locking tea caddy; an addition to our silver teaware collection.
This exceptional antique George III sterling silver locking tea caddy has a navette, paneled shaped form.
The body of this silver tea caddy box is embellished with bands of bright cut engraved volute spiraling leaf ornamentation on a matte background to the upper and lower portions; these bands flank a plain undulating bordered panel.
The ornamentation to the surface of the caddy alternates with panels of concave vertical fluted decoration.
This antique Georgian tea caddy is retains the original hallmarked flush hinged covers; the flush hinge indicates the fine quality of this piece.
The cover is embellished with further bright cut engraved undulating borders accented with bud motifs, in addition to simplified borders paralleling the domed paneled portion; the domed portions reflects the incurved shape of the body.
This impressive cover is surmounted with a cast sterling silver urn style finial, in the Classic Adams style.
The caddy retains the original fitted fully working lock and functional key.
This sterling silver tea caddy is a highly desirable shape and style.
Condition:
This Georgian silver tea caddy...
Category
1790s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
A Pair of 18th Century Chinese Porcelain Vases as Table Lamps with Gilt Bases
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of late 18th century Chinese export porcelain vases, now mounted as lamps, with polychrome decoration throughou...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Antique George III Sterling Silver Locking Tea Caddy by Henry Chawner
By Henry Chawner
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver locking tea caddy by Henry Chawner; an addition to our silver teaware collection.
This exceptional antique Georgian sterling silver tea caddy has an oval form.
The surface of the tea caddy is encompassed with bright cut engraved fabric swag designs and floral festoons, suspended from impressive spiralling foliate anchor-points accented with pensile bud designs.
Each spiralling motif flanks a shield shaped cartouche displaying the contemporary engraved initials 'WM' and surmounted with a ribbon style bow.
The upper and lower portions of the body are encompassed with engraved bands of chevron style decoration, in addition to an applied bead decorated border.
This antique silver tea caddy...
Category
1780s British George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Bedsteps
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A set of Georgian mahogany bed steps with box wood and ebony stringing: the treads with good quality pale green hide. The commode removed and now a ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
The Duke Of Dorset's Sterling Silver Cup and Cover Hallmarked London 1773
By Charles Wright
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1773 by Charles Wright, this striking, antique George III, sterling silver cup and cover, features reed detailed loop handles and applied acanthus decoration. The cup bears an original engraved coat of arms for John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset...
Category
1770s English Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of 3-Light George III Cast Silver Candelabras
Located in London, GB
A spectacular pair of George III cast silver candlesticks made by Frederick Vonham in 1762 with the addition of a pair of 3-light a...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Silver
David, Francois-Anne The Antiquities of Herculaneum 12 Volumes Period Bindings
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Antiquities of Herculaneum with their explanations in French. Published, Paris, 1781-1803. This profusely illustrated set consists of 12 volumes retaining their original marbled ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Leather, Paper
Chinese Export Porcelain Soup Tureen
Located in Essex, MA
With domed cover with gilt lemon finial on a conforming base with two handles.
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Six 18th Century Hand-Colored Botanical Prints, P.J. Buchoz, 1776
By Pierre Joseph Buchoz
Located in Richmond, London
A set of six of exceptional quality 18th century hand-colored engravings
Buchoz, Pierre Joseph. Collection précieuse et enluminée des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, q...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Qing Qianlong Famille Rose Medallion Porcelain Bowl
Located in New York, NY
This finely decorated Qing-period rose medallion or rose mandarin bowl is beautifully hand-painted with four vignettes depicting courtly scenes.
Category
1770s Chinese Qing Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Mahogany Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A late 18th century, Georgian, Mahogany tea caddy having extremely attractive inlaid conch shells, banded and strung decoration, with hinged lid enclosing lidded interior retaining partial paper foil lining.
This particular caddy is relatively plain and simple in design, but the attractive inlaid decoration lifts it significantly.
The condition remains relatively good and clearly it has been well loved throughout its life.
Tea was a precious commodity throughout the 18th and 19th centuries and the purpose of a tea caddy was not just to preserve the and extend the life of the precious tea leaves, but also to enable the owner to lock away those aforementioned valuable tea leaves, keeping them safe from the house staffs potential wandering hands.
This 18th century tea caddy...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Creamware Pottery Red-Printed Tea Caddy
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Creamware Red-printed Tea Caddy,
circa 1765-75
The creamware tea caddy or teapoy is rectangular in form with large panels to fr...
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Creamware
Chinese Large Mother of Pearl Mounted Armorial Tea Caddy for MacPherson
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare, incredible and large antique Chinese carved mother of pearl mounted tea caddy with armorial for MacPherson and dating from circa...
Category
1770s Chinese Qing Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Danish Rococo Giltmetal Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine 18th century Danish or Swedish rococo mirror having a shell decorated crest with foliate adorned ribbed frame, the original arched beveled plate with...
Category
1770s Danish Rococo Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Brass
Pair of Italian Neoclassical Painted Armchairs
Located in Essex, MA
A fine pair of chairs with unusual shaped backs and seats. With blue paint, gilding and Etruscan painted decoration. Raised on square tapered legs....
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Walnut
Georgian 18th Century Rosewood Square Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An attractive and well figured, late 18th century
Square rosewood tea caddy having boxwood
Stringing and key escutcheon with original brass
Hinges to...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Rosewood
George III Mahogany Corner Cabinet
Located in Essex, MA
One piece. with scrolled arched pediment with gilded rosettes over a glazed door with
Chinese Chippendale mullions exposing a green painted interior with shelving , lower hinged pa...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Chinese Mother of Pearl Mounted Box with Four Boxes and Counters, 18th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and rare Chinese mother of pearl mounted games box with four matching interior boxes containing gaming counters and dating from the 18th century. The rectangular shape...
Category
1770s Chinese Qing Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
George III Mahogany Bell Top Bracket Clock by Paul Rimbault, London
By Paul Rimbault
Located in Norwich, GB
George III bracket clock by Paul Rimbault, London
Finely figured mahogany bell top case with four finials surmounted by a brass hinged car...
Category
1770s English Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Fine Paris Porcelain Coffee Can Vue De Notredame De Paris, French Ca 1795
By Paris Studio
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very beautiful porcelain coffee can with a hand painted scene of Notre-Dame Cathedral, made by Paris, France, dating to the late 18th century, circa 1795.
The coffee can is broadly cylindrical tapering slightly to the base, with a ring handle having an inner spur.
This is a very finely hand painted coffee can with a view of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, all in many different coloured enamels. The view even shows various figures in the foreground, all set in a rectangular thick gilded border, against a lovely lemon yellow ground. with further hand painted gold gilded rims and outer handle.
Overall a very distinctive, beautifully decorated coffee can.
NOTES
Notre-Dame de Paris, often simply referred to as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral and is the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals from the middle ages, situated on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The Roman Catholic cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture.
Notre-Dame was built on the ruins of two earlier churches, which were themselves predated by a Gallo-Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The cathedral was initiated by Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, who about 1160 conceived the idea of converting into a single building, on a larger scale, the ruins of the two earlier basilicas. The foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander III in 1163, and the high altar...
Category
Late 18th Century French Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian Window Seat Attributed to Ince and Mayhew
By Mayhew & Ince
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George III carved mahogany window seat having foliate carved scroll arms, fluted apron with paterae carved corners and central panel, standing on turned fluted legs with rib car...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Antique George III Mahogany Library Writing Table Desk, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fine antique George III mahogany and marquetry library table, circa 1780 in date.
The table features beautiful floral and scrolling foliate marquetry throughout, with flame mahogany marquetry panels and gonçalo alves crossbanding.
The rectangular top is fitted with the original emerald green gold tooled inset leather writing surface above a pair of crossbanded frieze drawers, raised on square tapered legs.
It is freestanding, finished on all sides, so that it can stand freely in the middle of a room, making it extremely suitable for a large home or office.
Complete with original brass handles, working locks and keys.
THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, and only shows minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use.
Please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 76 x width 144 x depth 84
Dimensions in inches:
Height 29.9 x width 56.7 x depth 33.1
Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.
The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.
Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.
Flame mahogany
Thomas Sheraton - 18th century furniture designer, once characterized mahogany as "best suited to furniture where strength is demanded as well as a wood that works...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Georgian Mahogany Oval Butlers Tray on Stand
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality late 18th century, Georgian period, mahogany oval butlers tray of Panelled design, retaining original brass hinges to folding sides with pierced carrying handles, raised on later square leg mahogany stand.
During the 18th and 19th centuries a coffee table was not what we regard as a coffee table in the 21st century. Coffee tables back then were always full height, effectively side tables. The modern, low, coffee table is really something which began to be seen during the early 20th century onwards.
Based on the above there is a variety of different methods to incorporate a coffee table into an interior for people who wish to furnish their properties with genuine antique furniture, whilst still allowing for the practicalities and function which is required in modern times.
Therefore as is now normal with by far the majority of these butlers trays which we see, due to the fact they make absolutely perfect coffee tables, this has been removed from its original, tall, folding stand at some point and fitted onto a lower, more practical and sturdy stand constructed from old antique wood. It’s worth noting that generally this means an old broken table...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Antique George III Inlaid Flame Mahogany Sideboard, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a superb antique George III inlaid flame mahogany bowfront sideboard, circa 1780 in date.
The top is banded in satinwood and...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Dutch Burr Walnut Bombé Cabinet Armoire, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a superb antique Dutch Rococo burr walnut bombé Armoire, circa 1780 in date.
It has been accomplished in stupendous burr walnut with masterf...
Category
1780s Dutch Rococo Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Walnut
Italian Tooled Letter Box With Barberini Coat Of Arms
Located in Essex, MA
Slant hinged lid opening to a fitted compartment and conforming case with overall tooled decoration. Iron handle and latches.
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Leather, Wood
Set of Eight George III Style Mahogany Dining Chairs
Located in Essex, MA
Consisting of eight side chairs, each with a rectangular back with trellis splats, upholstered seats raised on square tapered fluted legs. Resided on Park Avenue in New York for the ...
Category
1790s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Chinese Porcelain Plate or Dish Hand Painted Blue & White, 18th Century Qing
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good Chinese porcelain plate or dish with a blue and white, hand painted river scene, which we date to the Qing dynasty, late 18th century.
The dish or plate is fairly h...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Demilune Kingwood Commode
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A fine Louis XVI ormolu-mounted demilune kingwood commode: The marble top over three frieze drawers with two further drawers in the centre flanked by ...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Kingwood
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Oval Breakfast Dining Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality late 18th century George III
Period mahogany oval breakfast table having well
Figured oval tilting top with crossbanded decoration
Raised on elegant barrel turned...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Demilune Card Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George III demilune card table, the mahogany top with holly string inlay, over ebonized molded undersection, the apron in highly figured mahog...
Category
Late 18th Century English Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Ebony, Kingwood, Mahogany, Holly
Rare John Turner Porcelain Cup and Saucer in Traveller Pattern, circa 1795
By John Turner
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare coffee cup and saucer in ‘The Traveller’ or ‘One Legged Duck’ blue transfer printed, hand gilded pattern by John Turner & family, of Lane End, Longton, Staffordshire. ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Italian Lombardy Marquetry Hall Bench Settle Late 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique Italian Renaissance Revival walnut, specimen wood and marquetry decorated cassapanca or hall bench, made in Lombardy Italy and Circa 1780 in date.
It is smothered in the most wonderful carved panels with fabulous inlaid marquetry decoration with fruit wood and bone inlaid marquetry panels depicting communal and hunting scenes.
It has a hinged seat allowing access to the storage box below, and is raised on wonderful scroll feet
Condition:
In excellent original condition having only been cleaned and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 115 x Width 155 x Depth 60
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 foot, 9 inches x Width 5 feet, 1 inch x Depth 2 feet
Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.
The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.
Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet...
Category
1780s Italian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Walnut
Georgian Derby Trio Tea & Coffee Cup & Saucer Pattern 569, Puce Mark Circa 1795
By Derby
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good porcelain TRIO of a Tea Cup, Coffee Cup and saucer by the Derby factory, made during the George 111rd period, circa 1795.
The pieces are well potted in the Hamilton...
Category
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
French Brass Large Candlesticks, Circa 1780
Located in Downingtown, PA
Stylish French Brass Candlesticks,
Circa 1780
The large French brass candlesticks are of circular form each with a hollow base and fluted column. Each with a detachable nozzle. Th...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Brass
Early New Hall Porcelain Coffee Can & Saucer Duo Chinese Pattern 421, circa 1800
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hard paste porcelain coffee can & saucer duo by New Hall, hand decorated with their Chinese figure pattern number 421, dating to the English George 3rd...
Category
Late 18th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Georgian New Hall Porcelain Tea Bowl & Saucer Gold Pattern 142, Circa 1785
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very fine hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1785.
Both pieces have 24 vertical flutes.
Both pie...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
English Georgian Mahogany Side Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive and good quality late 18th century Georgian Mahogany side table with well figured top, over three frieze drawers retain...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Newhall Porcelain Tea Bowl & Saucer Hand Painted, Circa 1800
By New Hall
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a hard paste porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer by New Hall, dating to the turn of the 18th century, George 111rd period, circa 1800.
Both pieces are decorated over-glaze with ...
Category
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Spanish Faience Charger with Leaping Stag, Talavera, circa 1780-1800
By Talavera de la Reyna
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spanish Faience charger with leaping stag,
Talavera,
circa 1780-1800
The large deep tin-glazed earthenware dish is painted with a large figure of a s...
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Imari Tureen and Cover-Duck in Pond
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain Imari Tureen and cover,
Circa 1780
The Chinese Export porcelain tureen and cover are painted in the Imari palette. The body and cover are painted in underglaze blue and iron-red with ducks on a pond surrounded by water lilies . The unusual handles are in the form of upturned water lily pods. The finial is shaped as a closed flower with leaves and the rim of the tureen and the edge of the cover have an undulating design.
Dimensions: 9 inches high x 13 1/2 inches wide x 9 3/4 inches deep.
Provenance: Chinese Porcelain Company...
Category
1770s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Lacquered and Gold Leaf Storage Trunk (Nagamochi)
Located in London, GB
A fine lacquered and gold leaf Nagamochi dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century.
The exterior of the trunk and its gilded metal fittings are decorated with a folia...
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mahogany Card Table of a Beautiful Color and Patina Circa 1785
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
An elegant Sheraton mahogany card table with rosewood cross banding and boxwood and ebony inlays and stringing; lovely figured timber, colour and patina circa 1785.
Category
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
George III Mahogany Tambour Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nice old piece very nicely polished and tuned up in good working order. Rectangular top with tambour roll top opening to expose a pull out writing surface with adjustable ratcheted c...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Mahogany
A Sheraton period West Indian satinwood secretaire bookcase
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Sheraton period West Indian satinwood secretaire bookcase, with later painted Victorian decoration and mirror backs, of tall rectangular form, the upper section with two doors of g...
Category
1790s English Sheraton Antique Antiques Associations Members
Materials
Glass, Satinwood
