Vintage Italian, 18th Century Style, Five Piece Bedroom Suite

This is a beautiful and ornate Vintage Dresden Revival porcelain centrepiece, late 20th century in date. The centrepiece features a winged cherub on each side holding an oval pierc...

A beautiful antique Sheraton Revival hand painted satinwood, eleven foot wide, bed headboard, late 19th Century in date. The headboard features a moulded serpentine toprail with scrolled arch cresting, above further mouldings and a recessed triple lobed panel decorated in the manner of Angelica Kauffman with winged cherubs playing with a lamb above a scrolling foliate swagged urn. Add an elegant touch to your home with this antique English headboard...

This is a fabulous antique Italian bureau bookcase, made in Venice, circa 1750. It has been made from the finest burr walnut with walnut cross...

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...

A Pair of Edwardian mahogany and Marquetry Inlaid Sheraton-Revival Bedside Cabinets, the swan-neck pediments above a small shelf with bevelled glass plate below, the moulded top abov...

This is a fine antique pair of Italian Grand Tour solid bronze busts of Dionysus and Ariadne by Clodion, and bearing his signature, dating from the l...

We are pleased to offer this 5 piece bedroom suite circa 1890. Suite comprising of a bed, wardrobe, dressing table and pair of night stands. Double bed with rich mahogany colour, r...

Fine Chinoiserie Decorated 8 piece Bedroom Suite circa 1900 Waring & Gillow Badges [1] 4 door wardrobe centre hanging space, fitted shelves each side,...

A very impressive good quality late 19th century French parquetry and marquetry inlaid bedroom suite. Comprising a large mirrored wardrobe, a pair of be...

A Rare François Linke 'Suite de Chambre À Coucher', index number 1447 Paris, circa 1905-1906. Comprising of two beds, two bed side tables and a wardrobe. Having acajou and oeil de vermeil cube parquetry, the wardrobe with two shelves and an adjustable shelf-drawer, both bedside tables with fleur de pêcher marble tops and white marble lined interior, Signed F. Linke to the right-hand sides chutes. Dimensions of beds: Height: 63 1/2 in Width 61 in Length 6 ft. 10 1/2 in. (161.5 cm; 155 cm; 209.5 cm) Dimensions of Wardrobe: Height: 99 in Width: 57 1/2 in Depth: 19 1/2 in (251.4 cm; 146 cm; 49.55 cm) Side Tables: Height: 32 in Width: 16 in Depth 16 in (81.2 cm; 40.6 cm; 40.6 cm) Literature: C. Payne, François Linke, p. 445, pl. 526, showing a slight variant of the present pair of double beds in a watercolor interior project from the Linke Archives Notes: Linke title: Lit Louis XV...

French Art Deco suite made of Macassar ebony and walnut. Suite includes: 1-Armoire with 3 large doors that open to interior shelves, center door is mirrored. 84 H x 69 W x 20 ...

18th century Italian Venetian Chinese style painted headboard having a Chinese Pagoda style form and Chinoiserie Design.