19th Century Regency Rosewood Chiffonier Sideboard

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19th Century Regency Rosewood Chiffonier Sideboard

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A superb quality antique breakfront Regency rosewood sideboard, circa 1820 in date. It features a raised mirrored back with an elegant surmounted brass three quarter gallery that is raised on scrolling ormolu supports. This is over a decorative ormolu mounted frieze above three silk backed and brass lattice work doors flanked by ormolu mounted rosewood columns and standing on a plinth base. Add a an elegant touch to a special place in your home with this beautiful antique sideboard. Complete with working locks and key. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and polished in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 123 x width 138 x depth 36 Dimensions in inches: Height 48.4 x width 54.3 x depth 14.2 Regency period furniture (1800-1830) Furniture styles often bear the name of the historical periods in which they occur. For English furniture, this often means naming a style after the king or queen on the throne at the time. With the Regency Period of furniture, the naming convention only partially applies and reveals the complicated political atmosphere of England at the time. Unlike prior periods, borrowing elements from Roman and Greek furniture, designers of the Regency period often tried to recreate the actual furniture pieces found in the museums, vaults, and artwork of the time. The introduction of Egyptian artifacts also sparked a desire to bring those elements into the Regency Period style. Thematic motifs of ancient gods, sphinxes, lions, and griffins ornamented many pieces. Additionally, a revival of Eastern influence from China and Japan inspired the use of bamboo, wood carved to resemble bamboo, and lacquered finishes. While all these cultural and historic influences helped determine the furniture of the Regency period, the style itself used ornamentation for its elegance, rather than rich carvings and curved lines exhibited in earlier periods of furniture design. The woodworking of the pieces generally exhibited plain lines and surfaces with slender legs and right angles. In many ways, this helped highlight the ornamentation by providing a simplistic background to avoid distraction. The components of Regency period furniture include the selection of wood and the use of metals for accents. Mahogany remained the dominant wood for furniture design, while exotic wood like ebony was featured in many high-end pieces. Additionally, veneers of rosewood and zebrawood added visually striking surfaces or features to the clean lines of the style. The addition of metal accents, however, gave Regency Period furniture its ornate elegance. Furniture makers primarily used brass, while occasionally including bronze or ormolu, an imitation gold. Brass inlays, accents along corners and legs, handles, and hinges, were popular. Of note, brass rosettes or lions' heads to hold rings on cabinet doors and drawers decorated many pieces, while the bases of furniture legs were often animal feet made of brass. Glass insets on cabinet doors would also be covered and protected by brass grills in lattice patterns or scrollwork designs. Rosewood is a rich warm reddish brown wood that has a distinct grain with dark brown and black outlining. One variety of rosewood can vary significantly from another even though it is of the same species. These Rosewoods, native of India, South East Asia and Brazil, were dense and awkward to work with. It was renowned for quickly bluntening cutting tools and visibly darkening in colour when over prepared. The Brazilian species of rosewood was by far the most beautifully figured and therefore it became the most sought after and rare. This was the wood of choice for the great box makers, David and Thomas Edwards who used it to veneer some of their finest pieces.

Dimensions:
Height: 48.43 in (123 cm)Width: 54.34 in (138 cm)Depth: 14.18 in (36 cm)
Style:
Regency (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Rosewood
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
1820-1829
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1820
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: 086261stDibs: LU95069654151