Antique Pair of Watercolours 'Cardinals' E Tarenghi Early 20th Century

This is a beautiful antique watercolour study by Ettore Ascenzi of the Spanish Steps, Rome , circa 1890 in date and signed. The colours are incredibly vibrant for its age and the pa...

This is a beautiful antique watercolour study 'Water Carrier' by Filippo Indoni, circa 1890. It is the study of a young female figure with water carrier, standing in a street, signe...

This is a Dion Pears (1929-1985) original oil on canvas artwork, signed lower left by the artist. It depicts the John Surtees and Mike Parkes piloted Fer...

A superb and striking pair of Sheraton Revival mahogany and satinwood banded chairs, Circa 1900 in date. The high back chairs feature satinwood banding with boxwood and ebonised line inlay and wonderful foliate carved decoration. The square tops are supported by a pair of ionic columns which frame rails above criss-cross splats. The overstuffed golden upholstered seats are above satinwood banded seat rails and the chairs are raised on reeded taping legs that terminate in decoratively carved spade feet. It is rare to find such a perfectly sculpted pair of chairs. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THESE CHAIRS ARE MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION. Condition: In excellent condition having been cleaned, polished, and waxed in our workshops. Please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 96 x Width 47 x Depth 49 - Chairs Dimensions in inches: Height 3 foot, 2 inches x Width 1 foot, 6 inches x Depth 1 foot, 7 inches - Chairs Thomas Sheraton (1751 - 1806) was an English cabinetmaker and one of the leading exponents of Neoclassicism. Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture characterised by a feminine refinement of late Georgian styles and became the most powerful source of inspiration behind the furniture of the late 18th century. His four-part Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers’ Drawing Book greatly influenced English and American design. Sheraton was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, but he became better known as an inventor, artist, mystic, and religious controversialist. Initially he wrote on theological subjects, describing himself as a “mechanic, one who never had the advantage of collegiate or academical education.” He settled in London c. 1790, and his trade card gave his address as Wardour Street, Soho. Supporting himself mainly as an author, Sheraton wrote Drawing Book (1791), the first part of which is devoted to somewhat naive, verbose dissertations on perspective, architecture, and geometry and the second part, on which his reputation is certainly based, is filled with plates that are admirable in draftsmanship, form, and proportion. In 1803 Sheraton, who had been ordained a Baptist minister in 1800, published his Cabinet Dictionary (with plates), containing An Explanation of All Terms Used in the Cabinet, Chair and Upholstery Branches with Dictionary for Varnishing, Polishing and Gilding. Some of the designs in this work, venturing well into the Regency style, are markedly unconventional. That he was a fashionable cabinetmaker is remarkable, for he was poor, his home of necessity half shop. It cannot be presumed that he was the maker of those examples even closely resembling his plates. Although Sheraton undoubtedly borrowed from other cabinetmakers, most of the plates in his early publications are supposedly his own designs. The term Sheraton has been recklessly bestowed upon vast quantities of late 18th-century painted and inlaid satinwood furniture...

This is a gorgeous pair of Antique English Sheraton Revival design mahogany and gilt wood pedestals, C1920 in date. The square tops above anthemion carved concave friezes with f...

This is a beautiful oil painting in the Palladian style featuring a classical scene of Roman ruins, with a family fishing in the shadows of the ruins and dating from the second half ...

Painting By Alexander James Mavrogordato (1869-1947) Watercolour on paper Signed and dated 1909

Cockatoo. Framed watercolour. 20th century. Watercolour showing a cockatoo (possibly sulphurous) perched on a stone bench and picking a cherry with one of its legs. In its detail an...

Early 20th century painting of a stream. This sweet bucolic and idyllic setting brings a lot of peace to the viewer. Framed in a solid wooden frame.

A pair of vibrantly colored Burmese water color paintings of Deities. The early 20th century paintings in mid 20th century professionally framed giltwood frames.

Early 20th century portrait of a young boy. Oil on canvas.

Pair of Framed Original Early 20th Century French Travel Advertisements, Oil Painted on Linen