Chippendale Habersham Chinoiserie Decorated Ebonaized Block Front Chest 20th C

An English Chippendale style chest of drawers attributed to the Williamsburg Bartley Collection offers shaped top over graduated long drawers and raised on bracket feet, maker mark a...

An English Chippendale style chest of drawers of the Williamsburg Bartley Collection offers shaped top over graduated long drawers and raised on bracket feet, maker mark as photograp...

***Reduced In-House Delivery Rates - Click on “Ask Seller” to Request a Quote*** Baker Chippendale Carved Cherry Block Front 4-Drawer Chest, Signed, 20thC. 32 3/4" x 36 1/4" x 21 1/4". This Baker Chippendale chest...

An Asian style screen offers four Chinoiserie decorated ebonized panels with landscape scene having garden with tree, birds and pond, raised on square l...

Mid 20th Century Permacraft Furniture Chippendale Block Front Genuine Mahogany Chest of Drawers with four flawlessly working dovetailed drawers. Meas...

A rare, late-17th century / early-18th century, fall front bureau with gilded Chinoiserie Japanning & faux tortoishell ground. “Before Japan was made in England, the imitation of tortoise-shell was much in request for cabinets, tables and the like“. John Stalker and George Parker, a treatise on Japanning and varnishing (originally published in 1668), Alec Tiranti, 1998, p. 75. - This bureau is decorated in one of the most fashionable styles of the Baroque period, Chinese lacquer with gilded decoration and tortoiseshell imitation ground and would have been a statement piece within the interior. - The colours, which have become muted from atmospheric conditions over time, are still striking and colourful evoking warm and richness. - It has come from a private collection where it has reputedly been for many generations which explains why it is in such original condition retaining the original hinges, lock and catches. - Pieces of imitation tortoishell with gilded lacquer decoration are rare, the last piece I handled was a chest of drawers about 20 years ago. - Tortoishell furniture was only affordable by royalty and the elite and the height of fashion in the 17th century, as was producing things that were not what they seemed. One of the oldest examples of faux material from the Baroque period is at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen where, in 1667, the royal bed...

A very nice New England Cherry Chippendale Slant Front desk with a great color and patina on an older refinish. Nicely fitted interior with a shell ...

Desk with bold serpentine interior, document drawers with turnings and flames, and block-and-shell prospect door with carved tulip. Case with four gra...