Rare Regency Period Mahogany Whatnot or Étagère

An English Regency-period solid mahogany extending dining table of superb colour and figuring. Early-19th century, circa 1820. Retaining all of its original leaves of fine, well-figu...

An English William & Mary period oyster laburnum and walnut chest ca 1700. William lll (1650-1702). A classic oyster-veneered chest of two short and three long graduated drawers all faced with exquisite oyster veneers banded in fruitwood. The top with well-chosen oyster inlays...

An outstanding and rare, 17th-century Japanese mulberrywood gilt-lacquer cabinet raised on a later stand. This fine and exceptional two-door, gilt-heightened cabinet - reputedly in mountain mulberry wood...

A fine and rare cellarette - or jardinière - attributed to Thomas Hope, ca 1810. In the best quality mahogany with ebony lines and raised on well-carved animal paw feet. Original zinc...

A fine and rare pair of English Regency period torchères, or stands (or candle stands) in the manner of Thomas Hope. Circa 1810. Both are raised on tapering simulated-bronze column supports with circular tops and fluted gilt collars, on concave-sided triform bases with winged-panther mask monopodia. The column bases issue from spreading, gilded, carved lotuses. These antique torcheres might also be referred to as columns, ornamental stands, candle sticks, or candelabra. In superb condition throughout. Literature: ‘Thomas Hope – Regency Designer’ ed. David Watkin & Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Yale University Press, New Haven and London (2008). The Aurora Room, Duchess Street, photo from V & A Museum, fig. 68-1, p. 378. The Royal Collection, HM Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 588- 1-2, 45- 1-2, figs. 78-2, 78-3, p. 396. The Faringdon Collection, Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, illustr. 88, p. 414. The pair of stands we are offering here correspond closely to the pair in the Faringdon Collection (see above). Watkin and Hewat-Jaboor state; ‘’A ‘Roman’ stand of this precise design, perhaps an imaginative variation on one published by Visconti*, is illustrated in ‘Household Furniture’, plate L, number 2… Hope also owned several classical Roman candelabra...

An English Regency-period chinoiserie penwork occasional table, circa 1815. The unusual rectangular gentle-serpentine top profusely decorated, and centred by a chinoiserie scene of ...

An attractive pair of bedside cupboards of the Regency period Constructed in mahogany, rising from an end support base of scrolled ‘X’ for...

This beautiful, solid mahogany Jamaican bookcase/wagon, features lovely turnings, and Primitive feet. Jamaican, West indies, Colonial, British Colonial, Islands, Island.

An elegant Regency period black and gilt lacquered bookcase standing on square tapering legs with original castors. Decorated beautifully throughout with oriental designed lacquer. B...

Of octagonal form; the pitched hinged cover surmounted by a gilt-metal thistle finial opening to a lined interior; the sides mounted with lions' masks issuing pendant finely chased ring...

A good quality Regency period mahogany bowfronted Side cabinet, or side cupboard, having well figured top Over two silk panelled doors enclosing interior shelves Raised on elegant...

Elegant English Regency period, circa 1815, étagère or library stand of unusual form having solid mahogany construction with top platform on turned colonette-form supports with ball turned finials above single door locking cabinet with real leather-bound book spine veneer above lozenge band of boxwood inlay on bulbous turned feet. Book spines are 'Dickens Works...