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Period: 18th Century
Italian Baroque Style Pinewood Bookcase Cabinet, Early 18th Century and Later
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a stepped cornice and accompanying lower molding on the upper (later) bookcase section which houses 4 levels of shelves, the lower section is a credenza with four doors openin...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Pine
18th Century Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Martlesham, GB
18th century mahogany bureau bookcase with a nice moulded cornice with dentil moulding, the top section having two astrigal glazed doors ...
Category
British Georgian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English George I Walnut Secretary Bookcase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality George I walnut secretary bookcase, having a domed cornice above a bevelled mirror door enclosing two shelves. The...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
19th Century British Colonial Shelf
Located in High Point, NC
19th century British Colonial shelf made from teak. There are tall hand turned finials on the top over three shelves, all with scalloped galleries...
Category
British Colonial Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Teak
Late 18th Century English George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase ‘Secretaire’
Located in Miami, FL
A late 18th century English George III mahogany Bureau bookcase ‘secretaire’ with fretwork open swan neck pediment, centred by a shaped finial, above a pair of glazed doors, slant fr...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Antique Georgian George II Figured Walnut Bookcase Bureau Secretary Desk, 1750
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine antique George II figured and inlaid walnut bureau bookcase/secretary, circa 1750.
The bookcase secretary in two secrions, the upper bookcase having a stepped crown with twin arched mirrored doors below, the mirror to the right side having a reversed engraved flower and the doors enclosing three adjustable shelves. The base having a fall front with a fitted writing surface, the interior is extravagantly fitted with eight pigeonholes, six drawers with a central carved arched door flanked with ribbed columns. The door having a secret switch to the inside allowing the whole 'box' to be withdrawn, therefore providing access to two secret drawers to the verso. The base having twin pull-out lopers to support the fall front, below are four long and two short drawers, the cabinet is raised on bracket feet.
The bookcase secretary is made from the finest figured walnut which is crossbanded & inlaid with satinwood stringing, the cabinet has all the original brass handles, lockplates/escutcheons. This is a very fine quality early Georgian bookcase secretary...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Small 18th Century Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Lymington, GB
A small late 18th century secretaire bookcase / cabinet.
George III period, circa 1790.
Of very good rich color.
Inlaid and crossbanded throughout.
Only 2'5" wide.
Mounts are corre...
Category
Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Early 18th Century Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Martlesham, GB
Early 18th century walnut bureau bookcase, the shaped cornice above a mirrored front bookcase with the two doors opening to reveal ...
Category
British George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Mid-18th Century Mahogany Small Bureau Bookcase
Located in London, GB
A mid-18th century well-figured mahogany Bureau bookcase of attractive small proportions having architectural dentil-moulded cornice above shaped mirrored door with original gilt-ges...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XV Grand Scale Bibliothèque or Display Cabinet
Located in Winter Park, FL
A grand scale 18th century French Louis XV Period bibliothe`que, or bookcase, from the Loire Valley. Made of solid cherry wood with chestnut as a secondary wood and constructed in tw...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Iron
Original George III circa 1760 Solid Hardwood Corner Cupboard Large Bookcase
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original George III circa 1760 solid mahogany corner cupboard
A very good looking and decorative piece, its hard to believe that th...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Hardwood
Louis XVI Secretary Bookcase, South German 1780, Cherry
Located in Belmont, MA
Louis XVI secretary bookcase, South German 1780.
Elegant and unique secretary bookcase with beautiful cherry veneer and Louis XVI style geometric ...
Category
German Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Cherry
Antique English George III "Chinese Chippendale" Bookcase or Display Cabinet
Located in Charleston, SC
Fabulous quality antique English George III diminutive size, carved and fretted mahogany "Chinese Chippendale" bookcase or display cabinet
Please note superbly "blind fretted" and c...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th-19th Century Neoclassical Colonial Padauk Glazed Ebonized Book Case
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fine and unusual Colonial glazed book case, reeded architectural column supports with neoclassical capitals, tapered and turned reeded legs terminat...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Padouk
18th Century English George II Walnut Secretary Bookcase
By Giles Grendey
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a fine quality 18th century English George II walnut secretary bookcase in the manner of Giles Grendey. The shaped mirrored pane...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Early 18th Century George I Figured Walnut Bureau Bookcase
By Peter Miller
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A superb and exceptionally well proportioned early 18th century figured walnut ‘pagoda topped’ double dome bureau bookcase, circa 1720 England.
The upper section is surmounted with what is believed to be the original solid walnut finials and soft bevelled mirror plates, opening to a removal bank of walnut veneered and feather banded drawers, cantered by pigeonholes below two shelves. Candle slides are neatly stowed below the bookcase doors to reflect the light.
To the moulded bureau, the fall opens to reveal pigeonholes, long and short asymmetric drawers each beautifully veneered in figured walnut and feather banded, cantered by a cupboard door which neatly conceals an open compartment and drawer. Below the fall, two short and two long graduating oak lined drawers are each book-matched in superb sections of hand-cut figured walnut veneers over bun feet.
It should be noted that this exceptional desk and bookcase, is not only of the finest cuts of figured walnut veneer but exquisitely made at the pinnacle of design which had gradually evolved predominantly in London, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury.
The actual description 'desk-and-bookcase' appears to be first recorded in the accounts of the Royal cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (fl.1680-d.1715) who supplied several for the Royal Household from 1710 (Bowett, op. cit.), and another described as 'a walnut writing desk, the top for books and patons and glass in the doors asked' for the 5th Earl of Salisbury, Hatfield House. Another maker of this form of desk was the London cabinet-maker John Gumley (1691-1727) who advertised in Richard Steele's Lover on April 24 1714 that he 'hath taken for a Ware-house, and furnished all the upper part of the New Exchange in the Strand' continuing with an extensive list of his stock including 'Desks and Bookcases.' In 1714 he supplied one of these in walnut to James 1st Duke of Montrose for the sum of £11.
Russian cabinetwork of this period was strongly influenced by Tsar Peter I return to Russia after his studies in London. He subsequently sent twenty-four cabinetmakers who were working in Amsterdam to London to train as furniture makers. One of these cabinetmakers named Fedor Martynov made furniture for the Empress Anna Ioannovna. Martynovs drawings are almost identical to the present piece.
Literature
Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London: Bullfinch Press 1991, p.248, fig 287, by Lanto Synge,
English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, by Dr Adam Bowett,
Woodbridge: Antique Collector’s Club, 2002 Chapter 7 Case Furniture 1689–1714 pp.221-223 fig. 7:53
A walnut bureau bookcase of the same form and period sold from the private collection of Patricia Kluge...
Category
British George I Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
George III Chippendale Period Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in London, by appointment only
George III Chippendale period mahogany breakfront bookcase.
Having a moulded and dentilled cornice above a fluted frieze, enclosed by a pair of glazed doors flanked by fluted and st...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Painted Bookcase
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century Italian neoclassical painted bookcase is a marvel of architecture inspired by the masters of ancient Greece and Rome! T...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Wood
Mid 18th Century Mahogany and Gilt Display Bookcase
Located in London, GB
An attractive mid-18th century figured mahogany display bookcase with gilt gesso mouldings throughout having dentil moulded cornice above shaped glazed doors and paneled cupboard doo...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Italian Walnut 18th Century Library Bookcase Panneling
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A good late 18th century Italian neoclassical library room panneling. This room consists of one central bookcase with a tympan centerpiece. At both sides angle cabinets...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
George III Mahogany and Satinwood Book Cabinet
Located in Essex, MA
Finely constructed with choice veneers with crossbanded top with brass 3/4 gallery over a pair of paneled doors with a pair of opposing doors with pleated fabric, each corner with re...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Irish George II Mahogany Secretaire Cabinet manner of Giles Grendy
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a fine quality 18th century George II Irish mahogany secretaire cabinet in the manner of Giles Grendy. The shaped mirror panels doors opening ...
Category
Irish George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
English Chippendale Mahogany Breakfront with Secretary, Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Chippendale mahogany broken pediment breakfront with carved floral medallions, candle light molding, four upper case glass doors with adjus...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Bureau Bookcase Cabinet
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive and good quality George III period mahogany bureau
bookcase having unusual castellated and carved cornice above pair of 13
pane astragal glazed doors, superbly figured flap and four long drawers
with replacement brass oval plate handles raised on original shaped bracket
feet
(A fine example of a functional and elegant Georgian bureau bookcase...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Chippendale Period Mahogany Library Bookcase
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An extremely good quality mid-18th century Georgian mahogany
Chippendale period library bookcase, or cabinet, having Greek
Key moulded cornice over superbly figured panelled cupboard
Doors enclosing three adjustable shelves over secretaire writing
Drawer and three further long drawers retaining original brass
Swan neck handles raised on elegant original shaped bracket feet
(This charming bookcase is absolutely typical of the Mid 18th Century
when the master craftsman Thomas Chippendale was working his cabinet
making magic and many other talented cabinet makers were following
then trying to imitate his designs and styles. Dating to circa 1760 it
has real elegance for a large case piece...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George III English Thomas Chippendale Brown Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Dublin, GB
A superb George III Chippendale period mahogany breakfront library bookcase, the raised architectural pediment, with a detailed moulded edge, above arched Gothic glazed doors carved with acanthus, resting on a raised paneled door base with a deep plate-form base, (a design often seen in Thomas Chippendale work).
Footnote: The design for this bookcase can be seen in the life and works of Thomas Chippendale by Christopher Gilbert page 41 figure 65, as one of four bookcases commissioned by Sir Rowland Winn for his London townhouse in St James Square, or at Nostell Priory.
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18 Century English Sheraton George III Satinwood Cabinet Bookcase, circa 1785
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A classic period Sheraton English satinwood and tulipwood China display case or bookcase the upper section with dentil cornice above a pair of astra...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Satinwood
Chippendale Secretary/Desk
Located in New Haven, CT
George III period mahogany Chinese Chippendale secretary bookcase, England, circa 1790. The original ogee bracket feet and the broken arc...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Louis XV Transition Period Cube Marquetry Vitrine or Library
Located in Berlin, DE
French 18th century Louis XV Transition period cube marquetry vitrine showcase or library
A fine small 18th century Louis XV/Transitional period vitr...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
18th Century French Louis XVI Period Whitewashed Bookcase, Vitrine
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century French Louis XVI period whitewashed bookcase ~ vitrine in oak features a stately presence while retaining a rustic charm that is ideal ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Oak
A Grand 18th C. Italian Church Cabinet w/ Roman Ionic Columns & Original Paint
Located in Atlanta, GA
An 18th century open shelving display and closed storage cabinet from Italy, with fabulous Roman Ionic column details and retains it's original ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Fine Antique 18th Century Rosewood Bureau Bookcase
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine antique 18th century rosewood bureau bookcase having a magnificent top section with a shaped moulded swan neck pediment, two shaped doors both wi...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Rosewood
Early 18th Century Burl Walnut Veneered Bureau Cabinet
Located in Kastrup, DK
Early 18th century burl walnut veneered bureau cabinet.
The upper section with swan neck top over double doors, the lower section with a sloping-f...
Category
European Baroque Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Oak, Walnut
18th Century Cupboard or Bookcase with Glass Vitrine, Walnut, Spain Restored
Located in Miami, FL
Exquisite 18th century Spanish cupboard or bookcase with glass vitrine, constructed from walnut and original glasses of this period. Features a coffered case fronted by four large do...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Walnut
18th Century Sheraton Satinwood Bookcase
Located in London, GB
A fine antique late 18th century Sheraton period satinwood secrétaire bookcase, crossbanded throughout and of attractive small proportions, havin...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
Fine George III Period Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase
Located in London, GB
A fine late 18th century Sheraton period well figured mahogany Secretaire bookcase, having moulded cornice with chequered inlay, surmounted by urns and central inlaid satinwood panel...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood, Tulipwood
18th Century French Louis XV Walnut Sideboard Plate Rack
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Beautiful 18th century French Louis XV walnut sideboard plate rack, original brass hinges, key escutcheon plates and pulls,
fine carved door, shaped apron, elegant front legs ending ...
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
George II Irish Brown Mahogany Bureau Bookcase
Located in Dublin, GB
A fine George II Irish mahogany blind door bureau bookcase
The open fret work swan neck cornice outside a carved giltwood Irish cartouche, above two shaped raised panel doors, wit...
Category
Irish George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Large Early 18th Century Buffet Library Louis XIV
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A monumental French early 18th century oak buffet cupboard. Cupboards/Buffets like this were used in castles and large mansions to either store...
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Oak
Georgian Mahogany 18th Century Library Secretaire Bookcase
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality 18th century mahogany secretaire bookcase of diminutive proportion having 13 pane astragal glazed doors above secretaire drawer and three long drawers with replac...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
George II Walnut Slant Front Bureau Bookcase / Secretary
Located in Woodbury, CT
George II walnut and walnut burl slant front bureau bookcase / secretary with original hand beveled mirrored doors on bracket feet. Upper cabinet with candle slides conceals book she...
Category
British George II Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Irish Georgian Secretary
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine and unusual 18th century Irish mahogany bureau bookcase, the pierced gallery top with Gothic details, the pilasters and door with rich and crisply carved shell and foliate desig...
Category
Irish Georgian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mercury Glass, Mahogany
18th Century Dutch Marquetry Bureau Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very imposing good quality 18th century Dutch Marquetry bureau bookcase, having wonderful flowers, birds, classical scull and urn decoration. ...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Bureau Bookcase Oak German Serpentine Front Original Brassware Working Locks
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A large, museum quality, 18th century, German, oak bureau bookcase with a serpentine front, original brassware and working locks
As fine an example of this model of German cabinet f...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Oak
George III Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase in the Manner of Thomas Sheraton
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A George III Sheraton period mahogany breakfront bookcase of good low-waisted proportions, attractive arched glazing bars inlaid with ebony and satinwood diamonds which match the inl...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century, George II Mahogany Secretary Bookcase
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A magnificent English 18th century Chippendale secretary bookcase of exceptional detail. The composition is marked by a robustness...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Gustavian Yellow Swedish Display Cabinet
Located in London, Park Royal
Antique Swedish cabinet, circa 1780 made in two-parts: a base set of drawers and top set display cabinet; patinated in a traditional Gustavian ...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Austrian 18th Century Empire Style Two Doors Larch Wood Armoire Wardrobe Cabinet
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Precious and original larch wood wardrobe, convertible into a bookcase, with two doors in the Austrian Empire style of the 18th century
The wardrobe, all in larch wood, is all origi...
Category
Austrian Empire Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Brass, Other
Bureau Cabinet Portuguese, 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bureau cabinet Portuguese.
With original handles, on ogee bracket feet.
18th century.
Category
Portuguese Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Wood
English Chippendale Mahogany Carved Floral Desk With Bookcase. Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Chippendale mahogany desk / bookcase on stand with flanking book matched doors, gadrooned molded edge, fitted interior pigeon holes o...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Imperial Russian Gilt Bronze, Brass and Mahogany Display Cabinet
By Christian Meyer
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An exceptional late 18th century Imperial Russian empire bookcase or display cabinet in the finest figured mahogany richly inlaid and mounted with gilded brass and gilt bronze. The bookcase is characteristic of the Russian "Jacob" style which was fashionable in the late 18th and early 19th century in France. The overall design however owes more to the work of David Roentgen than it does to the Jacob...
Category
Russian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Magnificent 18th Century Italian Bookcase
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Magnificent 18th century Italian bookcase with turquoise stones.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Iron
18th Century Scandanvian Rococo Giltwood and Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 18th Century Rococo carved giltwood and Walnut bureau bookcase, having wonderful scrolling foliate and plume decoration to the cornice, a single mirror door with gi...
Category
Scandinavian Rococo Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Giltwood
18th Century French Louis XIV Bookcase, Vitrine
Located in Dallas, TX
18th Century French Louis XIV Bookcase ~ Bibliotheque is resplendent with artfully sculpted bas relief across its entire facade! This superlative instant family heirloom is sized to sufficiently display almost any prized heirlooms, collection, or library! Hand-crafted from solid old-growth quarter-sawn oak, it boasts a reverse contoured crown with four distinctive tiers. The top tier was carved in French egg...
Category
French Louis XIV Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Oak
18th Century Oak Corner Library Cupboard
Located in Vosselaar, BE
This mid-18th century oak corner cupboard originates from the Prebysterie (living quarters of a pastor) of the small Normandy village of Foie, now part of Normanville. It was reputed...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Oak
English Mahogany Secretary With Mirrored Bookcase. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany secretary with mirrored bookcase. Secretary has a upper case broken pediment top with dental molding, original mirrored doors, c...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Gothic Mahogany Secretaire and Bookcase, Original Glass
Located in Port Chester, NY
A fine example of multipurpose 18th century Gothic English furniture, with a generously proportioned bookcase on top, and built in secretaire ...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Irish Georgian Palladian Breakfront Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
George II Palladian mahogany breakfront bookcase, 18th century
The broken swan's-neck pediment with gadroon- and dentil-carved bands terminating in a foliate roundel, above a like-carved frieze over two central doors, each inset with a shaped mirrored panel, flanked to either side by a single door, featuring a finely carved floral festoon, centered by fluted Corinthian pilasters, opening to a shelved interior, the lower section fitted with a drop-front secretary drawer opening to an inset leather writing surface and a variety of drawers and cubbyholes, flanked to either side by two small drawers, over two paneled cupboard doors, the side sections each fitted with four graduated drawers, raised on a plinth base.
This design is similar to those found in William Salmon's, "Palladio Londinensis."
Reference this exact piece in "The Antiques Directory Furniture," General Editors, Judith and Martin Miller, Portland House, New York, 1985, page 118 Breakfront (C Price Classification: "An Early George III mahogany breakfront secretaire bookcase, with shaped bevelled glazed cupboard doors, flanked by outer doors carved with Corinthian pilasters, lower section with secretaire drawer")
Provenance: Williams Antiques...
Category
Irish Georgian Antique 18th Century Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
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