Yew Tree House Antiques

An outstanding 18th Century Danish paint decorated and profusely carved kas or armoire, the double domed to with rich faux marble arched cove moldings, the front with two applied car...

A pair of dark blue delft plates densely decorated with a swirling kaleidoscope of flowers and leaves from the centers to the edges. Known as de Grieksche "A" (Greek "A") pattern. ...

Italian 18th century polychrome lobed dish with a hand-painted decoration of a bluebird on a rock with flowers behind, in pale blue, yellow and green on a white glazed background, w...

An early 18th century oak tavern table in elm and oak having three plank top with breadboard ends with a scrubbed patina over trestle ends joined by a wide upright stretcher with a s...

A set of three 18th century delft shallow bowls having stylized pinwheel floral centers with a surrounding ring and radial sprigs and an outer band of four flowers alternating with g...

A Scandinavian spirit barrel in carved spruce with an integral stand having glass windows at each side and ends bound in willow, with chip decoration and brass studwork. Retaining o...

A small stool crafted by an 18th century windsor chair maker, with thick top of beautifully patinated elm over turned and splayed ash legs. Originally used for perching on when milk...

Late 18th or early 19th century American sack back Windsor armchair with historic green painted surface, the bow back supported by seven spindles over bentwood arm with shaped handho...

Fine pair of French 19th Century patinated and gilt bronze candlesticks, now as lamps, having acanthus and lotus leaf cast details and having three scroll detailed supports and stand...

Good pair of English brass "Brighton Bun" traveling candlesticks, having removable candle sockets which thread into the dished base. When not in use, the...

Irish Georgian circular center or breakfast table in vividly grained mahogany with a banded and string inlaid border, the divided top consisting of two halves, one of which swings do...

19th century Gothic oak bookcase designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, the rectangular crenellated top with octofoil panels filled with carved roses, fleur de lis, and a portcullis on a Tudor rose back panel above a cavetto frieze mounted with carved oak leaves above two doors, each with two Gothic arched apertures filled with unique metal grilles, enclosing three adjustable shelves to each side, the base section with two blind arcaded doors enclosing an adjustable shelf, on a double plinth base, the lower plinth later, the interior stamped twice 'CLAREMONT', the reverse inscribed in ink 'Mr Young 18.5'. Provenance: Supplied for the Palace of Westminster and designed by AWN Pugin in conjunction with Charles Barry (who was largely credited for Pugin's designs) as part of the refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament after the fire of 1832, later removed and by 1866 recorded at Claremont House, Esher. This robust Gothic bookcase, enriched with Elizabethan cusped tracery and heraldically-charged castellations, is conceived in the William IV romantic English manner introduced as the ‘New Palace of Westminster’ style, with the collaboration in the mid-1830s of the architects Charles Barry (d. 1860) and A.W.N. Pugin (d. 1852). Westminster Palace’s ‘fort portcullis’ badge is displayed in cusped tablets within embattled parapets, which are flowered with the English cinquefoile rose. This bookcase appears to be a precursor for the more florid bookcases designed for the New Palace by Pugin in the mid-1840s. It may possibly have been intended for the King’s Tower (now called the Victoria Tower). Pugin established a furniture manufactory in Convent...