1840s Furniture

Issued in the much sought after and scarce series: Abbé Lorenzo Berlèse Iconographie du genre camellia ou description et figures des camellia les plus belles et les plus rares ...

Antique print titled 'Japanesisches Fussvolk Musiker'. Original antique print of Japanese infantry musicians. This print originates from 'Die Volker des Erdballs (..)' by H. Berg...

A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We are a family business specializing in the purchase, sale and expertise of old, modern and contemporary tapestries, rugs, kilims and textiles....

This 19th-century Louis Philippe French server exudes timeless elegance with its ornate craftsmanship and rich walnut finish. This is one the cleanest pieces i'v ever had with the do...

Antique portolano, nautical map of Golfe De St. Drely engraved on a copper plate by Antoine Roux, Marseille France 1844, from his work Recueil des principaux plans des ports et de Ra...

Mirror from the Louis Philippe period in France. This mirror features the original mercury mirror within the classic Louis Philippe molded frame with curved upper corners. The frame ...

Antique portolano, nautical map of Isle De Poro engraved on a copper plate by Antoine Roux, Marseille France 1844, from his work Recueil des principaux plans des ports et de Rades de...

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Mammiferes Plate 10 - Crane de Chiens des Esquimaux, Crane de Chien d'Islande.' This rare plate shows the skulls of the Eskimo dog and the Ic...

Antique Portrait of George Washington, by William Matthew Prior (American: 1806 - 1873), circa 1840s, an oil on board quarter-length portrait of George Washington, after the famous, ...

Antique print titled 'Trappiste'. Print of a Trappist Monk reading a Bible. This print originates from 'Histoire et Costumes des Ordres Religieux'. The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious...

Finely engraved with a deer hunting scene, allover decorated in raised platinum with foliage.

Louis XVI style French Sevres cobalt porcelain and dore bronze-mounted ormolu vases pair table lamp. One side is painted with pastoral love sce...

Description: Antique print titled 'Sydney in New-South-Wales'. View of the city of Sydney, Australia. Originates from 'Meyers Universum'. Artists and Engravers: Joseph Meyer ...

c1840 French Antique Louis Philippe Crystal Inkwell. 3 piece and a very rare item. Great accessory for your desk.

Antique print titled 'Japanese von Stand und sein Diener'. Original antique print of a Japanese nobleman and his servant. This print originates from 'Die Volker des Erdballs (..)' ...

Cylindrical with white marble top and carved and shaped border with conforming fluted case section with a door. Plinth base.

Swiss alpine folk art Escabelle from St Moritz A 12.

Paris porcelain vase, circa 1840.

Swiss alpine folk art escabelle from Verbier village A30.

AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles. TITLE: The Personal History of David Copperfield. (20 Parts in 19). PUBLISHER: London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849 - November 1850. DESCRIPTION: FIRST ...

Antique map titled 'Carte de l'Afrique Propre de la Numidie (..)'. Map of the empires of Mauritania, Carthage and Numidia (Barbary Coast). This map originates from 'Atlas univers...

Gorgeous 19th century antique Ebonized wood Brass inlaid and crossbanded wih mother of pearls liqueur set with 4 decanters and 14 glasses Complete and in beautiful condition this 19t...

Size: 2ft 4in x 1ft 10in (71 x 56cm). Antique Swedish carriage cushion cover face. Mid 19th century. This beautiful cushion cover face is woven in interlocked tapestry technique; ...

Beautiful antique mahogany military chest of drawers in perfect and completely original condition. Beautiful weathered patina. As is usual with campaign chests of drawers, they consi...

Early Victorian Mahogany Table Top Specimen Cabinet enclosed within a single hinged door, brass fittings and plinth base - 12" x 12" x 11.5"h

Pair of antique Regency hall chairs. The chairs are mahogany with a white lacquered finish.  

Pair of subtly hand colored lithographic prints of specimen mushrooms from the book titled "Illustrations of British mycology, containing figures and descriptions of the funguses of ...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver vinaigrette modelled in the form of a book; an addition to our silver boxes collection. This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver vinaigrette has been realistically modelled in the form of a book. The body of this antique silver vinaigrette...

Rare set of six chairs by Danish architect Michael Gottlieb Birckner Bindesbøll from the 1840’s in a very classic Pompeii style. Similar examples of thi...

An exceptional, fine and impressive, miniature antique Victorian English sterling silver teapot in the Chinoiserie style; an addition to our silver teaware collection This exceptional and rare antique Victorian sterling silver miniature teapot...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare Circa 1840-1860 hand carved walnut Italian daybed with cherub putti decoration and chesterfield tufting What a find! Thi...

Swiss alpine folk art escabelle from Verbier village A29.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning circa 1940's English metal Staunton Chess set with Georgian circa 1840's Mahogany b...

A monumental pair of antique lead obelisk roof top finials, turrets. The pyramid shaped base with scrolled brackets supporting a gadrooned plinth and obelisk finials. Large and impo...

Back decorated in various inlaid woods showing vines, flowers etc., The tops of the back chair rails are mounted with eagle heads, and are joined together with a turned gilded deco...

Antique portolano, nautical map of Syrie engraved on a copper plate by Antoine Roux, Marseille France 1844, from his work Recueil des principaux plans des ports et de Rades de la Mer...

This pine armoire has an exterior mustard color paint and exposed peg construction. The feet, drawer liners, crown molding, and hardware are later. There are shrinkage cracks in the ...

French cast stone musical tambourine putti garden ornament seated on a sphere form with a squared plinth, and decorative sash. Mid-19th century.

Cotton quilt square with floral appliques cut from a printed chintz and redesigned as a wreath with floral sprigs in the corners. Signed & dated in ink in...

This beautiful boiserie panel depicting an allegory of Spring and the Arms of France was hand-painted in France, circa 1840. Boiserie is ornate wooden paneling that covered walls and ceilings of luxurious chateaus in France. The use of these panels became more prevalent at the end of the 17th century, before exploding in popularity during the 1700’s, thanks to multiple installations at the Palace of Versailles. Lengthy paintings such as this (ours is over 112 inches long) would often be placed above a doorway, forming a continuous theme with the rest of the room. The arrival of Spring is depicted by four winged cherubs frolicking among pink, white, and yellow flowers. None of the cherubs are clothed, although two of them are draped in colored textiles. The putto on the far left has a billowing peach colored material hanging from the left shoulder as he holds a sheer piece of fabric. The transparent veil stretches across most of the canvas, extending to the right hand of a female cherub wearing a jeweled tiara on the far right. On the same side of the canvas, but more medial, is another putto loosely draped in green fabric. To the left is the fourth cherub, a female with a laurel leaf tiara that is holding onto the edge of the Arms of France. A gold oval medallion, adorned with volute scrolls at the top and bottom, encircles a representation of the coat of arms of France from the Bourbon Restoration (1814/1815-1830). There is a large, curled leaf rising from the top volute with a husked border surrounding the light blue background with three gold fleur de lys. Our magnificent French painting gives off a warm and lively feel. Although it could still be used as part of a boiserie room...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

Wainscot chairs are sturdy, high-backed wooden chairs that originated in the 17th century, often featuring carved panels and armrests They were typically used by the wealthier classe...

This superb Louis-Philippe chest of drawers, discovered in the Loire Valley region in the home of a winegrower, reflects the discreet refinement of French art de vivre. Passed down f...

On a sky blue ground, the gilding finely tooled.

Swiss alpine folk art escabelle from Aarberg village A 5.

Heading : Tunbridge ware jewellery cabinet with perspective cubework Date : c1840 Period : Victoria Origin :Tunbridge Decoration : Cover and double doors decorated with perspecti...

A footed two-handled sauce tureen with cover, maroon and pale yellow ground with beautiful hand painted flower sprays on lower part of body; twisted handles and a petticoat stem Pat...

Extraordinary wall mirror, frame, an original from the 1840s from Austria. The frame is made of wood, the substructure is placed in an overlapping manner - typical for this period. ...

American Southern Chippendale mahogany wing back chair with serpentine back, flared wings, flanking scrolled arms, removable seat cushion, and terminating on claw and ball feet. Secondary wood consist of bald cypress...

This map, printed in 1840, is a detailed representation of Washington, D.C. in the mid-19th century. The map shows block numbers, wards, and government buildings as well as details o...

A superb quality mid 19th Century Anglo-Indian carved hardwood cabinet, having a nice figured shaped top with a highly decorative pierced and carved upstand consisting of various fol...

very rare writing set in original condition and never used, belonging to an aristocratic production of the mid-19th century. The finish and great quality of execution attribute its a...

This freshly reupholstered stool is adorned with golden silk/wool in traditional Biedermeier style.

This is a 100% original painted Swedish Mora clock. Its been restored and new battery works installed. I do offer the original works to every clock I sell.

Sheffield silver large size tureen marked on the inside of the lid with a cross over a globe and the initials ITC which indicates it was made by Walker, Knowles and Co., 47 Burgess S...

Elegant early Victorian games table with barley twist stretcher Rosewood games table with a chest board and back gammon inlaid foldover flap We date this piece to circa 1840 Very sol...

This superb pair of vegetable tureens or large entree dishes are of shaped, raised and fluted lobed form, surmounted with removable acanthus handles. The lid is engraved to both sid...

Title: 1846 Waxwing - Rare Hand-Colored Lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's *Book of the World* Description: This 1846 hand-colored lithograph beautifully illustrates a Waxwing, a bi...