Furniture

Dome Topped Tea Caddy From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Victorian Coromandel Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy. The Tea Ca...

Rare Tunbridge Ware Form Sewing Compendium From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this very rare Tunbridge Wear Sewing Compendium. The Sewing Compendium model...

Victorian Black Walnut Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy Box, Circa 1880. Beautiful and unique geometric inlay mosaic design banding embellishments with mother of pearl key and top medallion. Glowing, patinated wood box with hinged lid. This antique Tunbridge box...

Vandyke Border From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Antique Coromandel Tunbridge Ware Box. The Box of slim rectangular shape is veneered to the exterior in Coromandel and features an unusual bobbin moulding to the edge with face featuring a band of flowers framed by Coromandel veneer. The lid of the Box has a matching band of flowers with a vandyke inlaid border and Coromandel veneer frame. The interior is lined in Satinwood with brass hardware and is faced in Coromandel finishing the box beautifully. The Box dates to the late 19th century Victorian period circa 1875. The Antique Tunbridge Box...

Fitted Interior & Silver Handles From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box. The Sewing Bo...

Tunbridge Ware Folk House Sewing Box From our Sewing Box collection, we are thrilled to offer this Novelty Folk Art Cottage Sewing Box. The box of rectangular form made from Sycamor...

Rare Tunbridge Ware Form Sewing Compendium From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this very rare Tunbridge Wear Sewing Compendium. The Sewing Compendium modelled as a tower from the Brighton Pavilion features the iconic minaret turned in Sycamore (aka white wood) and a large globular body with hand-painted details leading to further turned faces and the hand-painted windows upon a stepped base. The Sewing Compendium opens in two locations one just below the first dome revealing a pin cushion and the second just above the windows revealing the Sewing tools including a Tunbridge Ware thimble and bobbin. The Tunbridge Ware Sewing Compendium dates to the Georgian era during the reign of George IV circa 1825. Brighton Pavilion, The Royal Pavilion and surrounding gardens are a Grade I listed property and were the former Royal residence located in Brighton, England. It was built in 1787 in three stages as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales who became the Prince Regent in 1811 and then King George IV in 1820. It is built in the Indo-Saracenic style prevalent in India for most of the 19th century. The current appearance of the Pavilion which has various domes and minarets, is the work of architect John Nash, who extended the building starting in 1815. George IV's successors William IV and Victoria also used the Pavilion but Queen Victoria decided that Osborne House should replace the Pavilion as the royal seaside retreat and therefore the Pavilion was sold to the city of Brighton in 1850. Indo-Sarascenic refers to a cross between Indian architecture and Muslim architecture.  Minarets means beacon in Arabic. In Islamic religious architecture, the tower from which the faithful are called to prayer five times each day by a muezzin, or crier. Such a tower is connected to a mosque and has one or more balconies or open galleries. The inspiration for the minarets features on the Brighton Pavilion are in homage to these types of finials.  John Nash (1752-1835) was one of the most prevalent British architects from the Georgian and Regency periods. He was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles of many important areas of London. He was financed by the Prince Regent and by the era's most successful property developer, James Burton. Nash's most famous designs were the Brighton Pavilion, Marble Arch and Buckingham Palace.  Sycamore is a member of the Maple family, found in Europe. It is light yellow in colour and is often a very clean wood, with a straight, fine grain. The wood is often pippy. However, these pips are usually a very similar colour to the rest of the wood making them hardly visible. Georgian, a period in British history dating from 1714-1837, the Georgian era after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV. Tunbridge Ware Tunbridge Wells and Tunbridge in Kent, England became popular in the 17th Century for their therapeutic waters. By the 18th century, Tunbridge Wells was a hugely popular Spa resort. Shops and stalls were set up to sell local work of distinction to visitors as souvenirs. Many of the original boxes were decorated with all sorts of different kinds of designs. Many of the Tunbridge boxes...

Featuring Multiple Scenes of Brighton From our Sewing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Tunbridge ware box. The box of rectangular shape elevated upon four ball feet feat...

Showing a finely turned fruitwood-handle / pen-rest, affixed to a weighted burl wood base decorated with geometric and floral motifs in stick-work and tessellated mosaics, the sides ...

An exceptional and original antique wooden Tunbridge ware box, possibly for games, made by Thomas Barton (1819-1903). This exquisite, versatile and ...

An English Tunbridge Ware dresser top jewelry box from the 19th century, with inlaid medieval castle décor and deep interior storage. This English jewelry box, typical of the Tunbridge ware production famous for its decorative inlaid woodwork, features a clean, linear silhouette, accented with a light banded inlay on each side. The lid however, attracts all the attention with its exquisite inlaid mosaic, depicting a stately stone castle standing out beautifully on the lighter wood veneer. The lid opens to reveal and deep interior storage with compartmentalized tray. With its warm patina and elegant silhouette, this 19th century Tunbridge ware jewelry...