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An English 17th century oak bench or settle with tall wainscot back suberbly hand-carved with profuse arched and foliate decoration in two tiers of four over five paneled sections on...

A mid 19th Century English grain painted bench with plank back, sides, and seat and having boot jack ends, the whole is original scumbled paint dec...

Rectangular top with brown leather and brass tacking raised on square tapered legs with H form stretchers. Estate of Douglas S. Kramer. Art collector and TV producer.

Inject a stylish dose of Mid-Century Modern style to your living room with this two seater small sofa. Its slim, smooth metal frame makes a gorgeous contrast with the seat, wrapped i...

Rectangular upholstered seat raised on turned legs joined by turned H form stretchers.

Fine George IV mahogany hall bench having turned bolster ends over single plank seat and standing on well turned legs, the whole fashioned from ric...

A fine ottoman mother of pearl rectangular seat, with inlaid exotic woods and mother of pearl.  

With scrolled ends and bolster cushions raised on saber legs and casters. With overall stenciled decoration.

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...

18th century oak settle / bench the high back with five fielded oak panels flanked by down swept arms on turned supports enclosing the recently uphol...

A cast iron and painted timber garden seat of cut briar form. England, circa 1870.  

19th-century walnut hall settle the scrolling foliated cornice above the two-paneled back with carved-headed detail, enclosed by lion arms. To the box seat opening to reveal a large ...