Fine 18th Century Queen Anne Burr and Highly Figured Walnut Card Table

A Unique Early 18th Century Diminutive George I Figured Walnut Bachelors Table, Circa 1720-1730 The table is of very rare diminutive proportions raised...

A bold and impressive George III carved mahogany serpentine concertina action card table, circa 1760. In the manner of William Vile & John Cobb, St Ma...

A fine and rare small George I mahogany table of diminutive proportions, circa 1725. England The top, moulded to all sides and with reentran...

A fine early 18th-century George I burr walnut veneered bureau bookcase of diminutive proportions, circa 1715. In two parts divided by a cross-grain moulding. The upper section has a cavetto cornice above a large single door...

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...

A fine George II figured walnut console table with Sienna Brocatelle marble top, circa 1740. England The moulded Sienna Brocatelle marble sits over a figured walnut moulded cavetto frieze, raised on eared solid walnut legs terminating on shaped pad feet. Lovely rich colour with well-patinated surfaces. Provenance Private Chicago collection Mallet Antiques...

18th century Queen Anne silver table, the ''dish'' edge surrounds the beautiful patina on the table top, vertical veneered frieze above stepp...

Burr Walnut Queen Anne Style Card Table. Circa 1920 This Card Table is Raised Upon Shaped Legs With Carved Knees and Pad Feet. The Frieze and Top of the Table Featuring The Best Qual...

Queen Anne Style Burr walnut Demi Lune Card Table. This Card Table Stands upon Shaped Legs with Boldy Carved Ball and Claw Feet. Circa 1920 The Top of The Legs Having Carved Leaves e...

Antique 19th century English Queen Anne burled walnut console and card table.

A fine late 18th century Hepplewhite period concertina action mahogany card table, in the French taste, having kingwood crossbanded serpentine top above shaped frieze, supported on c...

An early-18th century Queen Anne period carved walnut games, or card, table. Circa 1710. Veneered in well-figured walnut with herringbone feather bandings. The bold fold-over outset...