High Victorian Furniture

We are delighted to offer for sale this Museum quality, circa 1880 Dutch inlaid extra large twin pedestal, double sided partners desk which has been fully restored A truly stunnin...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely restored vintage light Mahogany lamp or side table It has a lovely flamed mahogany top which has a little lip around the edge We...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this pair of rare fully restored circa 1860-1880 Show framed Chesterfield tufted hand dyed brown leather lib...

We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime pair of fully restored Victorian circa 1860 Burr Walnut tripod tables with ornately turn...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning circa 1860-1880 Walnut framed Scriban bureau bookcase Please note the delivery fe...

A burgundy velvet armchair of generous proportions. High back with a deep seat and scrolling arms and back. Mahogany frame with turned front legs raised on original castors. Fully...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare and super collectable Antique Victorian George Hepplewhite Wheatgrass revolving captains chair which has been fully restore...

A handsome, stately desk calendar and letter holder from the Victorian era. It's hand-forged from solid brass, which one can feel from the weight of the piece. The antique brass has...

Stunning French upholstered club chair shown in dark mahogany. Custom finishes also available in cerused oak, mahogany, mocha walnut. COM: 10 yards, 54" wide plain fabric

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very Elegant, hand made in England Astral glazed Library bookcase with long legs and a flamed mahogany ...

19th Century, Pair of French Carcel Lamps. French victorian styled from 19th century napoleonic era

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1880-1900 Maple &Co stamped Victorian Bulster arm Regency Green leather sofa ...

A very fine and elegant Victorian glass jug or ewer, probably for claret, engraved with garlands and stylized leaf designs dating from the 19th century. The tall jug stands on a roun...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare Gillow's of Lancaster circa 1815 Military Campaign Kidney desk with brass gallery rail and removable barley twist legs An exceptionally rare example of a High Victorian Library desk...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original late 19th century extra large Flemish oil painting, signed A Apoeie depicting a nice nature scene in front of the sea. A ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this sublime Victorian circa 1860-1880, Hexagonal Burr Walnut split paneled three tier side table Please n...

We are delighted to offer for sale this handmade original Victorian spoon or medallion back dining chair with original upholstery A good looking we...

We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime circa 1880 refectory Library Dining table with tapered legs and hand dyed Regency green leather top. This table is simply stunning ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Antique Victorian circa 1880 bronze hanging lantern with four candle base A good looking well made and desirable pendant lantern in lov...

A marvellous combination of Wedgwood's traditional neoclassical style, in the form of a campana vase; which has been decorated in High Victorian style with gilt and bronzing.

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original circa 1860-1880 Victorian Copper & Brass 2 Gallon Pitcher jug. I have two of these, the second jug is an earlier Georgian...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely original Victorian ottoman footstool upholstered with Kilim Embroidered fabric Please note the ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime circa 1880 antique Victorian burr walnut library bookcase with gothic style glazed doors. Th...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of Victorian hand carved Thomas Chippendale style side chairs in heavy mahogany circa 1880 Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it covers within the M25 only for the UK and local Europe only for international, if you would like an accurate quote please send me your postcode and I’ll provide you with the exact price These are a very rare and highly collectable pair of Library chairs...

A characterful Victorian cast iron Campana style urn by the Andrew Handyside foundry of Derby. Wonderful colour and patina with decades of chipped flaky paint adding to the appeal. ...

19th-C.  Bronze Anatomical/Artists Model/SSculpture of a Hand, Signed 'Brooks'  USA, circa 1875, signed and inscribed 'Brooks' This remarkable 19th-century American bronze sculpture...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning, large circa 1875 hand painted Hungarian clothes trunk or marriage coffer chest I have recently purchased a very large collection of these original, antique painted wardrobes...

Presented is an original 1865 engraving Pres. Lincoln and Family, depicting the Lincoln family in April of 1865. The artist Francis Schell painted the original work, A. B. Walter eng...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of Antique Victorian circa 1880 hand made in England armchairs with hand carved Walnut Claw & Ba...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exquisite Victorian circa 1880 Lamb's of Manchester Burr Walnut tilt top dining or occasional table wit...

Elegant Ebonised Occasional Card hall table This stylish Victorian piece has an ebonised finish which is a smooth slightly shiny black finish which was made popular after the dea...

We are delighted to offer for sale this circa 1860-1880 fully restored original Swedish aged brown leather Chesterfield fully sprung sofa with hand carved ...

Featuring a Playful Scene From our Ceramics collection, we are pleased to offer this KPM Porcelain Plaque Mother and Child. The KPM plaque framed within the original gesso frame wi...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning highly collectible Victorian pine housekeepers cupboard for linens or pots A very charming and highly collectable piece, this is one...

We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely rare very large Howard & Son’s 1881 stamped burr & burl walnut chest of drawers with military history These are pretty much the finest quality chest of drawers I have ever laid my hands on, they are substantial in weight, the cuts of walnut have a deep rich grain and simply glow in the right light, they are the most exquisite quality. The inside top right drawer is stamped Howard & Son’s Berners street, there is also remnants of a paper label which has the serial number on of 8696 4332 and then “Easy Chair & Sofa Factory, Howard & Son’s Upholsterers 2526 & 27 Berners Street London Patent dining table” What a great piece of history. The real Piece De Resistance! Is the back of the drawers, they have the original name tag of the owner who commissioned them, one Sir C Pigott, its dated Sept 12 1881, the full history of the good chap is as follows "Captain Pigott, was born 13 January 1859, son of Sir Charles Robert Pigott, 3rd Baronet, and Mary Louisa (who died in 1873), daughter of Captain C Hallowell Carew, RN, of Beddington Park, Surrey. He joined the 60th King's Royal Rifles; served in the Zulu War...

We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime Victorian circa 1860 burr and burl walnut tripod table in original condition with triple pillared base A glorious little side table...

This antique epergne is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1880 and done in the period Victorian style. T...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning fully restored hand dyed brown leather top Military Campaign storage trunk which acts as a ben...

A very stylish English majolica pottery partners desk stand with inkwells with ram heads by renowned maker William Brownfield and dating from around 1870. The rectangular shaped desk...

A substantial and grand Victorian fireplace in dramatic Belgian black marble. The large and wide moulded shelf sits over a verde antico undershelf, and is centred by a beautifully ca...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this highly collectable, restored, Victorian circa 1860-1880, Pine and oak very large Library Bookcase based...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite pair of circa 1880 French solid brass and green marble side end tables A very good looking well...

Beautifully painted oil on canvas in its period and original giltwood frame, the canvas relined and the frame completely restored. Of note in the painting are the peacock feather in...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very nice antique, made in France circa 1860, hand painted and ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite Victorian circa 1880 revolving flamed mahogany with hand dyed brown leather top “Rent” table This is a very fine piece of antique...

A splendid Victorian figured mahogany occasional table with a slim moulded edge to the top. The table has a frieze drawer to the front with a brass escutcheon and a dummy drawer fro...

Figurine by Porcelanas Miguel Requena of Gentleman with candlestick jardinière. Miquel Requena is the sculptor, based in Valencia, Spain. Nice Lla...

Beautifully Patinated Repousse Design From our Decorative collection, we are delighted to introduce this superb example Repousse Tea Caddy by Grinsell and Bourne. The Tea Caddy of ...

PRESENTING an EXTREMELY UNIQUE and RARE 19C British Tunbridgeware Hair Pin/Bobbin or Slide. This slide is unlike any of it’s kind we have seen before, it is a VERY RARE survivor. From circa 1860 – 80 and made in Tunbridge Wells, England. Made of walnut with gorgeous marquetry inlay on the entirety of the front with classic Tunbridgeware micro-mosaic all over the front. The rear is walnut. The marquetry inlay appears to be various different woods, namely, maple, walnut and satinwood. Would have been worn in a Lady’s hair bun with the micro-mosaic facing forward. This would have belonged to a VERY ELEGANT LADY in the mid to late 19th Century. Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells. The famous makers of Tunbridge ware were in the Tunbridge Wells area of Kent; their most notable work was from circa 1830-1900. Early makers of Tunbridge ware, in Tunbridge Wells in the mid-18th century, were the Burrows family, and Fenner and Co. In the 19th century, around 1830, James Burrows invented a technique of creating mosaics from wooden tesserae. Henry Hollamby, apprenticed to the Burrows family, set up on his own in 1842 and became an important manufacturer of Tunbridge ware, employing about 40 people. Edmund Nye (1797–1863) and his father took over the Fenner company when William Fenner retired in 1840, after 30 years in partnership with him. Thomas Barton (1819–1903), previously apprenticed at the Wise factory, joined the Nyes in 1836, and worked as Nye’s designer; he took over the business in 1863 and continued there until his death. In Tonbridge (near to Tunbridge Wells), George Wise (1703–1779) is known to have had a business in 1746. It continued with his son Thomas, and Thomas’s nephew George (1779–1869), who took over in 1806. In its early years the company made articles such as workboxes and tea caddies with prints of popular views; later items had pictures created from mosaics. Their workshop in Tonbridge, Wise’s Tunbridge Ware Manufactory, was next to the Big Bridge over the Medway; the building was demolished in 1886 to widen the approach to the bridge. Tunbridge ware became popular with visitors to the spa town of Tunbridge Wells, who bought them as souvenirs and gifts. Articles included cribbage boards, paperweights, writing slopes, snuffboxes and glove boxes. At the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tunbridge ware by Edmund Nye, Robert Russell and Henry Hollamby was shown; Edmund Nye received a commendation from the judges for his work. He exhibited a table depicting a mosaic of a ship at sea; 110,800 tesserae were used in making the picture. The manufacturers of Tunbridge ware were cottage industries, and they were no more than nine in Tunbridge Wells and one in Tonbridge. The number declined in the 1880s; competent craftsmen were hard to find, and public tastes changed. After the death of Thomas Barton in 1903 the only surviving firm was Boyce, Brown and Kemp, which closed in 1927. Marquetry was an old technique which was continued by Nye and Barton to create images such as birds or butterflies. ‘Green Oak’ as caused by the fungus Chlorociboria aeruginascens. Stickware and half-square mosaic was invented by James Burrows in about 1830: a bunch of wooden sticks of different colours, each having triangular or diamond-shaped cross section, were tightly glued together; in the case of stickware, the resulting block was dried, then turned to form an article such as the base of a pincushion. For half-square mosaic, thin slices were taken from the composite block, and applied to a surface. Tesselated mosaic, was a development by James Burrows of half-square mosaic; it was adopted by George Wise and Edmund Nye. Minute tesserae were used to form a wide variety of geometric and pictorial designs. Many sorts of wood were used for the various colours; about 40 were in regular use. Only natural colors were used; green was provided by “green oak”, produced by the action of fungus on fallen oak. Designs for articles were often taken from designs of Berlin wool work.

Mid 19th century inlaid walnut breakfront credenza sideboard circa 1850 We are pleased to offer this stunning profusely inlaid sideboard. Breakfront shaped and offering 3 glazed doo...

A stunning pair of antique Victorian Papier Mache chairs. They were made in England, they date from the 1860-1880 period. They are beautifully made and are of very fine quality, wit...

An absolutely stunning antique Victorian period gilt wood mirror. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1840-1850 period. It is of incredibly fine quality, it is nice a...

We are delighted to offer for sale this original leather circa 1880 brown leather club armchair with hand carved Claw & Ball feet A good looking, well made and decorative chair, i...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning Victorian Arts & Crafts circa 1860-1880 hand made in England tallboy chest of drawers with cup...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning, circa 1900 hand painted Romanian clothes trunk or marriage coffer chest depicting Children's portraits and floral paintings I have recently purchased a very large collection of these original, antique painted wardrobes...

This charming antique Victorian fellow is made of quality Staffordshire porcelain and features lovely curly lamb's wool, hand-painted red eyes, a black nose with tan shading as well ...

A pair of 19th century Victorian mahogany desk chairs by Morrison & Co of Edinburgh, each upholstered with green leather, with carved and...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this highly collectable, restored, Victorian circa 1860-1880, Pine and oak very large Library Bookcase with ...

19th century satinwood box sofa. On six tapering legs.

We are delighted to offer for sale 1 of 6 lovely solid Elm hand sawn circa 1860 Windsor stick back armchair The Antique Windsor chair is a count...