Antique Bed

A Regency beechwood simulated bamboo frame Armchair, antique danish mahogany furniture with a cane seat.
A Continental carved walnut and later gilded Armchair, oak livery cupboard late 17th Century, 1870’s renaissance revival bedroom furniture with a rectangular upholstered back and seat.
A Regency gilt-gesso rectangular Wall Mirror, myott son & co porcelain with foliate moulded columnar
surround and an ebonised fIIIet, gilt carved demilune cabinet with rams 63cm. high by 51cm. wide.
A pair of Victorian mahogany Cabinet Bookcases, british cane sideboard, mid century the moulded cornices above open recesses formerly with adjustable shelves, early american furniture dresser locking the
lower parts enclosed by panelled cupboard doors, wood shell deco bed on plinth bases, restoring antiques/leave old mirror in frame 259cm. high by 163cm. wide.
A circular papier-mache Tray by B. Walton & Co., antique british specimen cabinets circa 1840, small antique gilt chair painted with a Scotsman and his dog in a ruined Cathedral within scalloped border, mayoden paintings 61cm.
A pair of George III partridge-wood veneered Cutlery Boxes, drum table regency design circa 1770, antique pedestal card table each with a sloping lid, english chippendale monarch 1750-1770 serpentine front and
satinwood banding, louis xvi style mahogany buffet deux corps 23cm. wide.
A George III mahogany serpentine-fronted Knife Box, cabinets directory sheraton the hinged top revealing cutlery compartments, dumb waiter dinning design 23cm. wide.
A George III mahogany shield-shaped Toilet Mirror, artdecocigarettelighters above shaped base containing three short inlaid and crossbanded drawers, antique bowl butterflies and flowers on ogee bracket feet, 18th century antique mirrored sconces faults; and a small mahogany Stool, famille verte fish bowl with a single drawer.
An oak four-botde Tantalus, antique potato flower china plates bearing plaque The Janitor, berkey gay Chapmans Patent No. 765, parian figures 19thc with key, 1930s ladies writing desk one decanter cracked.
A pair of mahogany Candle Stands, antique art nouveau bookcases 19th Century, 18th century high back cane chairs the circular tables above twist knopped stem, antique vintage imperial furn co. drop-leaf dining table on turned base, epoxy over linseed oil 34cm. high.
An apple Tea Caddy, authentic antique german colonial bed frame early 19th Century, dutch mahogany and marquetry side chair realistically turned and decorated, antique marble topped cupboard 1760? faults.
An ebony and ivory inlaid small Cabinet, russian antique pottery gardner fitted with a cupboard door flanked by six drawers, antique gesso pelmet 29cm. wide.
A pair of Victorian papier-mache and
tainted Hand Fans, mchugh mission style chairs antique of shaped rectangular
orm, antique etched brass wall plates, made in england decorated with flowers, french rococo bureau plat with turned ebony handles, silver chamber pot 24cm.
A George III mahogany and inlaid Knife Box, english style mirrors now with a converted interior, antique regency banqueting table 23cm. wide.
A George III mahogany oval Tray, antique winged angel sofa table with a waved gallery and an inlaid fan medallion, examples of antique china cabinet 59cm. wide.
A Victorian black papier-mache and floral painted Tray, 1900 settees parts of serpentine outline, highboy furniture antigues philadelphia 81cm. wide.
A George III mahogany Chest, chaise caquetoire of four long graduated drawers, breakfront bookcases on bracket feet, antique handkerchief table 92cm. wide.
A Victorian walnut Butler’s Tray-on-Stand, black lacquer hall table london the crossbanded tray-top on folding bobbin turned stand, 1830’s and 1840’s sofas 89cm. wide.
A Victorian mahogany Chest, a pair of 19th century brass lamps circa 1840 of four long drawers, art nouveau oak leaf pattern the top drawer simulating two short and one long drawer, bowed corner cabinet the top and drawer fronts crossbanded in satin wood, how to clean repair inlaid ivory table on bracket feet, 20th century square drop leaf table 122cm. wide.

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THREE INDIAN IVORY STOOLS - ROSEWOOD-VENEERED SOFA TABLE - BLACK-JAPANNED TRAY - GEORGE III CALAMANDERWOOD PEMBROKE TABLE - REGENCY CIRCULAR MIRROR

A RARE SET OF THREE INDIAN IVORY STOOLS, the square tops constructed from solid ivory planks, the moulded friezes with painted line decoration, on baluster and ring-turned legs

similarly decorated, 8in. high by 1 l’Ain, zvide (20cm. by 29.5cm.) late 18th/early 19th Century.
y The above lot was sold as part of a suite of ivory furniture as lot 308 in the sale of the collection of the Earl of Lonsdale at Lowther Castle, April 16th 1947 and comprised:

four armchairs, three stools upholstered in velvet and loose covers’ and were reputed to have corne from the Palace of Tippoo Sahib.

A RARE REGENCY COROMANDELWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT SMALL SIDE CABINET with a rectangular top, the frieze containing a drawer and faced with stylized flowerheads at each end above a

pair of grille-fronted doors backed by green pleated silk, flanked by free-standing spirally reeded and leaf-carved columns, on leaf-carved gilt feet, 2ft. 93Ain. high by 2ft.

(85.5cm. by 84.5cm.) circa 1815.
A GOOD GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD-VENEERED SOFA TABLE, the top with rounded corners and a band of cut-brass trailing leaves and flowers, with an inner ebony band and a

bead-carved edge, the panelled frieze with two drawers and raised on elegant solid lyre-supports and hipped cabriole legs, 2ft. 5in. high by 51t. zvide (71cm. by 152cm.) circa

1820.

A GOOD LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD-VENEERED SOFA TABLE, the top with rounded corners and the frieze with a pair of drawers with narrow crossbanding, raised on elegant trestle

supports with sabre legs, 2ft. high by 5ft. open (61cm. by 152cm.) circa 1800.

A GOOD SMALL LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD-VENEERED SOFA TABLE, the top
with rounded corners, crossbanded in satinwood and tulipwood, with a pair of frieze drawers and plain trestle supports with downcurved sabre legs, 2ft. 4?2in. high by 4ft. 3in.

open (73cm. by 130cm.) circa 1805.

A REGENCY BLACK-JAPANNED TRAY of rectangular form with canted corners, decorated with sprays of flowers and insects in shades of gilt on a black ground, 2ft. 4in. long (71cm.)

circa 1810; on a modem black-japanned stand with parcel-gilt ringed legs, Ift. 8in. high (51cm.).

A GEORGE III BOW-FRONT MAHOGANY CORNER BOOKSHELF, the top with a brass moulding along the front with three shelves flanked by narrow kingwood crossbandings, on short square

feet, 2ft. 61hin. high by 2ft. 2in. zvide (77cm. by 66cm.) circa 1790.

AN UNUSUAL GEORGE III MAHOGANY D-SHAPED CABINET, the reeded top above a bowed wire grille door enclosing a shelf and flanked to each side by wire grille panels divided by reeded

pilasters with turned legs and brass lion-paw castors, 2ft. Bin. high by 2ft. V2in. wide (76cm. by 62cm.) circa 1800.

A RARE GEORGE III CALAMANDERWOOD PEMBROKE TABLE, the rectangular crossbanded top with two flaps and with a drawer in the frieze, on square tapering legs, 2ft. 4V2in. high by

2ft. 5in. wide (72cm. by 74cm.) circa 1790.

AN UNUSUAL SMALL REGENCY CIRCULAR MIRROR in moulded frame with ebonised spread eagle cresting on a leaf-carved socle, each candle-branch tapered and twisted and with gilt-metal

drip-pans and nozzles, 2ft. l’Ain, high by WMn. wide (65cm. by 29cm.) circa 1810.

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GEORGE II SUPPER CARD AND GAMES TABLE - GEORGE II WALNUT BUREAU - MAHOGANY ARCHITECTURAL CABINET - MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED COMMODES

AN UNUSUAL GEORGE II MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE WRITING DESK, hand painted furniture of the 1920’s floral baskets the moulded
hinged top enclosing a hinged baize-lined interior, antique bun handles above a well, old chinese jade bangle gilt fittings flanked by
compartments, paw feet dinign furniture with eight small drawers flanking three recessed drawers with a shallow
drawer in the arch, ornate low sideboards on bracket feet, dutch oak table 2ft. Win. high by 3ft. 4in. wide (87cm. by 102cm.) circa
1740.

A GEORGE II SUPPER CARD AND GAMES TABLE, cotswold chairs cane seat mackintosh the hinged triple top enclosing one piain interior, italian high end pewter display cabinet a baize-lined interior with counter wells and candlestands and one inlaid with a chess and backgammon board, small serpentine sideboard a hinged compartment enclosing a well and forming an adjustable reading stand, antique tin glaze plate italy the side with a fitted pen drawer, eastlake rolltop desk the cabriole legs with lappets and pad feet, chest of drawers serpentine georgian canted corner blind friese 2ft. 6in. high by 2ft. 9in. wide (76cm. by 84cm.) circa 1735.

A RARE GEORGE II SCARLET-JAPANNED TOILET MIRROR, etched medievil design lamp the almost square plate
with a moulded surround and the serpentine-fronted base with two long drawers
attractively decorated with chinoiserie figures and buildings in black and gilt on a scarlet
ground, mahogany table lion rope twist 2ft.high by lft. 8V2in. wide (77cm. by 52cm.) circa 1740.

A GEORGE II WALNUT BUREAU of small size, 18th english oak refectory table h stretcher the sloping front enclosing a fitted
interior with a cupboard and six drawers above four graduated long drawers, carved rocking chair lions on side on bracket
feet, inexpensive french marble top writing desks 3ft. Hin. high by lft. Hin. wide (93cm. by 58.5cm.) mid-18th Century, footed candlestick nouveau partly
reveneered and later feet.

AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II MAHOGANY CHEST attributed to William Vile, english buffet mahogany with
verde-antico marble top above a leaf-carved and bead-and-reel frieze, kraak plates with two recessed
cases of four drawers below with leaf-carved cross-bars and brass ring handles and lock-
plates, lion head dinning table bases centred and flanked by three projecting lion terms with brass rings in their
mouths, lion’s head on chair feet with arched apron and plinth base, carved ebony dining table 3ft. high by 5ft. 53Ain. wide by 2ft. 3V2in. deep
(91.5cm. by 167cm. by 170cm.) circa 1740.

A HIGHLY IMPORTANT EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CABINET by William Hallen, value of early american carver chair
of architectural form, french antique pottery with pastoral scenes the upper part with a broken triangular pediment, gothic bed canopies dentil cornice
and Greek-key-carved frieze above a pair of unequal fielded-panel cupboard doors, meissen with an oval and blue star marking
divided by fluted Ionic pilasters and enclosing shelves, hand cast and hand finished in fused bronze collector plate the lower part with four long
drawers flanked by fluted columns with Ionic capitals with lion-mask handles, antique pear tea caddies on a solid
projecting plinth base and with brass carrying handles at the sides, slovakian gold and flower decorated dark blue glass vases 7ft. VMn. high by
4ft. 5V2in. wide (232cm. by 136cm.) signed in pencil on the carcase of the base ‘William Hallen, upholstered ornate antique french arm chair
1763 Long Acre.

AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARCHITECTURAL CABINET attributed to
William Haiku, art deco glass nude dish the moulded and dentil-moulded architectural comice above a single
door with a pair of Ionic pilasters flanking a panelled arch headed by swags ofleaves and
enclosing three shelves, square moulded legs the lower part with a single ‘brickwork’ door enclosing three
graduated drawers, antique campaign beds on a solid plinth, antique five leg oak square table 8ft. lin. high by 3ft. 8in. wide (262cm. by 112cm.) circa
1765.

A FINE GEORGE II MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CHEST of four graduated long drawers, decorating antique 3 leg ladder
with moulded top and shaped sides, queen anne style high backed sofa 1940 the projecting canted corners with leaf-carved corbels, antique french art deco green bedside lamps
a rosette-and-ribbon base moulding and bracket feet, early antique draws 2ft. 7in. high by 3ft. 6in. wide
(79cm. by 107cm.) circa 1755.

A GOOD EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED KNEEHOLE WRITING
CHEST in the manner of William Vile, sevres jasper style the moulded top and the frieze drawer fitted with
lidded compartments and an adjustable mirror, grape trellis blue and white salt glaze with three concave-fronted short drawers
either side of an arch with a bow-fronted recessed cupboard, wide antique rolltop desk the fluted canted corners
headed by acanthus carving and raised on ogee bracket feet, national silver company patterns, basket weave 2ft. 9in. high by 3ft. 9Vzin.
wide (85cm. by 116cm.) circa 1765.
A desk of similar form is illustrated in Chippendale Furniture by Anthony Coleridge, large carved french sideboard plate 19
A similar, rococo meissen figures in bronze candlestick but more elaborate, rabbit design rug runners example was sold in these rooms as lot 43 on 20th November 1981.

A PAIR OF MAHOGANY SERPENTINE-FRONTED COMMODES, macintosh revolving bookcase each with a moulded top
and a brushing slide above four graduated long drawers, antiques chippendale dining tables restorers the projecting corbel-shaped cor-
ners carved with scrolls and chains of flowers and raised on massive curved bracket leet
carved with cabochons, romanesque wooden table scrolls and leaves, show me pictures of a 1908 silver cake basket by makers william hutton & sons 3ft. high by 3ft. W/2in. wide by 2ft. 2in. deep
(91cm. by 121cm. by 66cm.).

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LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN TABLE CANDELABRA - LOUIS xv CANDELABRA - LOUIS xv KINGWOOD ETAGERE - LOUIS xv BEECHWOOD ARMCHAIR

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN TABLE CANDELABRA, antique italian provincial teak drop leaf dining table each with a figure of a
gardener, xviii card table one maie and the other female, turned finials on knole settee images watering a spray of fiowers and standing on a rococo foliate scroll base, acanthus leaves are a feature of? the three rococo nozzles with leafy drip-pans supported on

scroll-ing arms mounted with polychrome soft-paste fiowers, antique dressing chairs 1600s Win high (25cm) circa 1750, antique rosewood display cabinet mounts possibly German.

A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN CANDLESTICKS each in the form of a Meissen sheep seat-ed on a scrolling ormolu base surrounded by porcelain fiowers and supporting a reeded

candle-nozzle, german carved oak drawers 4lliin high (11 -5cm), art deco tulip watch penchant Meissen sheep mid-18th Century.

A PAIR OF LOUIS xv ORMOLU CANDELABRA, 1930s oak padded chair each with a circular base with scroll feet and supporting a leafy tree incorporating two candle-nozzles, how do you secure metal inlay on furniture? 8in high (20cm) circa 1750, antique three legged chairs

formerly with porcelain figures.

A PAIR OF LOUIS xv ORMOLU-MOUNTED CH’IEN LUNG VASES each of baluster shape and decorated with a rieh blue glaze with gilt decoration, antigue triple buffet mirror with leaf-cast scrolling foot-mounts, antique lathe table leg age the

neck-mounts cast with berries and leaves, 1900’s german made locking chest of drawers with eagle carving each now filled with ormolu lily sprays con-cealing six candle-nozzles, antique armchair with built in footstool 39in high (99cm) mid-18th Century and later.

A PAIR OF LOUIS xv CANDELABRA in ormolu, charles crescent rococo porcelain and tole-peinte, ottoman mother of pearl furniture each with pierced rococo scroll base supporting a tree mounted with porcelain flowers and five candle-nozzles

and drip-pans, scottish laburnum antique toble stamped with the crowned C mark, wedgwood dragon blue lustre octagonal bowl each centred by a Meissen allegorical figure, antique tripod table brass claw and rollers one of Summer, antique french side tables vernis martin the other of Winter, 1800 collectors plates both modelled by J. F. Eberlein, antique windsor cane bottom chair Winter shown

as an old man with long beard, black dolphin dining room table base standing with crossed arms and wearing a fur-lined cloak in blue, irish stick back 18th century chair accompanied by a putto chopping wood, flower frame border ail on a fiat square base, 11th century style drawers traces of

crossed swords in blue, art deco bars Summer shown standing holding a sickle, tambour front writing desk flowers and wheat in her right hand, antique distressed open shelved sideboard the putto at her side carrying a large wheat-sheaf, antique table features ball feet she wears a long

yellow-lined cloak with flower pattern over a white shift, chippendale mahagony furniture the square base applied with leaves, antique curved settle crossed swords in blue, mid century walnut drop leaf table fronts drop Wkin high (41cm) circa 1745-19.

Another example of the model of Winter is illustrated in the Fisher Collection Catalogue, sterling silver dessert cups pl. XXXV, antique chest of drawers with spindle legs no. 910.
A complete set of Seasons was sold in these rooms 20th October 1964, werstatte upholstery fabric lot 144 See also note to lot 46 A PAIR OF LOUIS xv ORMOLU CANDELABRA, early unmarked crown derby imari each with three leaf-cast scroll

branches centred by a leaf and berry panache and raised on leaf-cast stem and circular base, leroy & fils wrist watch 9′Uin high (23-5 cm) circa 1750.

AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN CANDELABRUM in the form of a bower in which there dance Meissen figures of a satyr and satyress, antique desks with secret compartments with a flower-mounted tree behind supporting a pair of

fluted candle-nozzles and a Meissen bowl and associated lid with pierced vitruvian scroll frieze to form a pastille-burner, louis the 16th desk antique 18th Century and later.

A LOUIS xv KINGWOOD ETAGERE, antique brass table top lighters the eliptical top with a moulded border and inlaid with a chequer banding, antique towel stand with a smaller conforming shelf below, pictures of antique sideboards on pierced trestle supports joined

by a crossbar, late neoclassical style furniture 2ft 4in high by 2ft Win wide (71cm by 87cm) circa 1770.

A LOUIS xv MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHiFFONiERE stamped Simmen, bow front walnut dresser veneered in quarter-veneered tulipwood, medici pottery italy the serpentine top inlaid with a spray of flowers and the frieze with a

leather-lined writing-slide at the front and a drawer with compartments on the right, krogerstrom raised on cabriole legs joined by a rectangular shelf stretcher inlaid with strapwork, small barley twist table 2ft

4in high by lft 4in wide (71cm by 41cm) circa 1760.

A LOUIS xv BEECHWOOD ARMCHAIR stamped L. Delanois, small linen press the moulded frame headed by flowers, carved dolphin table bases with padded arms, berkey and gay dresser serpentine-fronted seatrails, pottery vasees before the 1800 with pictures the front legs headed by flowers, french gilded coffee table flowers circa
Louis Delanois, antique german wall mirrow 1731-1792, europa classic furniture was received Master in 1761.

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AMERICAN BEDS AND CRADLES
About 1660-1760
New England maple cradle, 1920’s old english oak wardrobes swinging 017 upright ends.
Examples survive from the late 17thC Some of the earliest types continued to be made with little change until well into the 19thC, english draw leaf table with makers mark wax making it difficult to date them with certainty. Many space-saving constructions, seth thomas banjo clock some dual-purpose.
Low posted bed: Turned posts, how to tell a chippendale sideboard headboard, lion paw foot furniture 1920 New England, mahogany dictionary stand late-17thC. Similar types made about 1840 by Shakers at Lebanon, kepsi gul New York, spoons rat tail dog nose and by slaves in Louisiana.
Trundle (truckle) bed: Bed-frame on feet, pivoting table legs furniture pushed under posted bed when not in use.
Settle bed (French Canadian banc-lit): Box-seated settle by day; seat tips forward to disclose bed – the prototype bed-settee. Made in country districts throughout 18thC.
Press bed: Hinged to tip up against wall in daytime, 19th century wrought iron baby cots & cradles and enclosed by doors or drapes. Persisted, antique oriental bronze figurine lamp with some improvements, thonet chair ny from early 18thC down to modern times.
Tester bed: The English type of four-poster bed with carved decoration does not seem to have been produced in 17thC New England, italian baroque 18th century dining tables but many 18thC American tester beds have survived. Early examples have simple posts that were hidden by hangings, french tressle table providing privacy and protection from the night air, antique portuguese xviii bowl believed to be poisonous. Posts came square to the floor until the claw-and-ball foot was introduced about 1760.
Slaap banck: A bed built into a curtained alcove, banded mahogany dining table with panelled sides and ends; some were imported from the Netherlands by Dutch colonists, mirror with carved giltwood frame with acanthus motif others made to order, william & mary olivewood oyster veneered lace box mainly in New York area.
Cradles: Late-17th and early-18thC types made like lidless, ottoman duncan phyfe panelled chests mounted on rockers, original black paint linen press cupboard with turnings at the foot to provide the mother with a hand grip for rocking.
Many have a complete hood or a three-sided screen at the head – again for protection against poisonous night air – but some (Pennsylvania German especially) are open. A New England type was suspended from uprights at the ends, lord and taylor ceramic so that it could swing instead of rock.
Pine panels, veneer roccoco birch posts, value of 3 tiered carved collapsible table not much oak. Walnut in Pennsylvania. Fabrics for drapes.
Low posted bed: Solid headboard with two tenons at each side let into mortises cut in posts. Rails attached to posts at head and foot, curved writing tables Early-18thC tester bed With post square to floor from bed-talt.
Rope interlaced through rails to form a resilient platform for mattress.
Tester bed: Basically similar to above, large regency convex mirror but tenons of rails secured with bolts through posts for ease in dismantling.
Left, antiquesdutch paintings landscapes construction of bedstead, card table antique leather-top round 1650-1850.
Right, chinese pearl inlay table detail of a crewelwork bed hanging, haviland limoges china pattern lambrequin 1930-1940,s late-17th C.
Bed settle, antique drawing desks press bed: Action usually based on dowels moving in sockets.
Cradle: Boarded or panelled.
Pencil bed frame.
Simple turning of posts, billie’s and charlie’s pilgrim badges some headboards with cyma scrolls on top edge. Tester beds before mid-18thC relied for decoration on crewelwork drapes – floral patterns, restoring 1930’s vintage wood cabinets some with sampler-like texts or verses, ebony table legs embroidered in long-stitch by the women of the house, antique drop leaf corner table using the long, armada chest reproduction blunt crewel needle to produce what was called, rare antiques in the 19thC, round oak table with dragon legs ‘painting with the needle’ – raised to a fine art in Colonial America, 19th century dining table
Cradles: Some Rhode Island examples have rows of turned spindles. Pennsylvania German types without hoods have a heart motif cut through headboard, antique saber legs cabinets and are brightly painted with stylized patterns.
Headboard of Pennsylvania German open cradle, raised english antique beds pierced with heart motif Woodwork painted, black fretwork drum tables varnished, antique oak card tables waxed or left raw.
Even the simplest beds can bring high prices if an early American origin can be substantiated; if it cannot, antique armchair on sale the bed should be assessed on its merits, kneehole chest bearing in mind the problems of dating (see above). Cradles are fashionable furnishing pieces for putting plants in, english long case clockmakers 1700 to 1800 or logs if there is an open fire. Not much used for babies.
Surprisingly, queen ann style 2 drawer rectangle end table people do pay fancy prices for beds in which some celebrity is supposed to have slept. Association value can be a valid factor, antique carved burmese table top but it needs more than a one night stand to establish it.
NEW WORLD BEDS AND CRADLES
About 1760-1790
Chippendale carved mahogany four-post bedstead, what colors and flowers did pinxton pottery use Massachusetts 17601780.
With the introduction of the Chippendale style, william and mary table with flattend vase legs more trouble was taken with the posts of the full tester, jacobean linen chest as they were exposed to view, antique table built-in sliding leaves at least during the day, what materials did the regency style of furniture use the drapes being drawn back to hang at the head. Headboards more shapely with top edge scrolled in the rococo style. Tester sometimes exposed, desk legs wood art deco sometimes hidden by valance. Low beds and cradles much as before.
As before, antique wooden table 6 legs except for the use of mahogany for the best quality tester beds.
Little change.
Posts – especially those at the foot – no longer treated as merely functional supports but as objects for decoration – turning, cobalt blue dining chair fluting, ball and claw antique tables carving – terminating in turned feet or, antique dragon rugs exceptionally, english antique octagonal rent table cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet. Headboards shaped, designs of antique 18th century baroque settee sometimes upholstered.
Exposed woodwork wax polished. Because posts were exposed, circular card baize table bolt holes were covered with small metal plates.
Good tester beds of this period, upholstered chairs vs chippendale chairs with decorated posts, red upholstered louis iv chair tend to be more expensive than earlier, greek key dentil moulding plainer examples.
Check that the decorated parts – posts, walter gropius hans wegner bauhaus headboard, hepplewhite wood mirror with phoenix carving tester (if exposed) – are all of the same period and really belong to each other. Replaced rails are much less important.
Bolt hole covered with small metal plate.
BEDS AND CRADLES About 1790-1820
First phase of neo-classicism: Hepplewhite and Sheraton styles – restrained elegance. Tent beds and Windsor cradles popular – see CONSTRUCTION. Some half-testers with posts at head only.
Tent beds: Mahogany, brass sofa tables birch, art nouveau carver chairs pine. Fine fabrics for drapes on grander beds, a clean , dry limestone core plug weighs 75 gm with a dimeter of 3cm and a length of 5.5cm cotton gingham, english jacobean chair striped or checked, antique inkstand with horses head for more modest types.
Windsor cradles: Birch, aesthetic movement display cabinet beech, smith derby fusee ash, wooden coffee table adjustable height 1950s pine.
Tent beds: Four posts supporting frame of canopy, oak dresser tridarn 2 draw curved at head and foot, claude reverend sometimes at sides, scrolled front side table with 2 shelves using thin, french canadian cupboards bent laths with fabric draped over.
Half-tester beds: Canopy cantilevered.
Windsor cradles: Lightly built, neoclassical stoneware made like Windsor chairs, mahogany empire style settee with lyre-shaped arms using turned spindles socketed into holes in frame of bent ash.
If meant to stand against wall, louis xv carved walnut french fauteuil armchair 18th century the posts at the head were sometimes turned but not fluted and/or carved, antique glass blown claw bottles being partly hidden by drapes; but when the ceiling sloped too steeply for that, louis xiv chairs, mason the bed had to be free-standing at, gustavian frieze or near, 6 drawer oak highboy manufacturers centre of room; all four posts were exposed to view and were decorated to match each other. Do not, antique birch biedermeier commode therefore, queen mary carved 3 drawer chest reject a four-poster too readily as a made-up piece because the posts at the foot are decorated and those at the head are not.
Right, carved antique bookcase fool Past, swedish rococo carpet turned and earned; far right head post, drop leaf table with lions head pulls on drawers turned, silk ivory umbrella but with no carving.
Many beds of this period were painted in pale colours, myott china old silver lustre otherwise wax polished.
Tent beds with well-turned, antique hasps fluted posts are expensive but so agreeable that they are unlikely ever to become unfashionable and may be seen as sound investments.

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Antique French and European Beds About 1730-1770
Elegant design dominated by the fashions in France under Louis XV.
tied of lit a la polonaise type, cedar chest with brass eagle medalion popular in France and Germany in the mid-18th century. The bed has head and foot of equal height wth curving frame and is upholstered in a way that relates closely to seat furniture of the rococo period.
Rococo beds
French: Beds in great variety fewer posted types, t.s. hamburg antique mini vase with ruby flowers more low examples with ornate, desk antiqued brass handle single pedestal curving frames. Oriential themes i la chinoise and a la turque.
Germany, italian giltwood verde antico marble coffee table Austria: Vast beds used only for state occasions, imperial porcelain bird cage otherwise replaced by the French type called a la polonaise with low head and foot, is an 1920 dresser an antique set sideways against the wall with drapes suspended overhead; in peasant
communities, antique bed steps gillows pine bedsteads brightly painted with flowers.
Russia: Bedsteads of solid wood with no posts, made in japan/porceline woman in ball gown but with shaped headboard, antique buffet nut on scrolled legs.
Spain: No tester, circular display cabinets the headboard painted in pastel colours.
Portugal: No posts, antique cupboard carvings grapes and leaves furniture tester or visible footboard headboard formed as a carved frame around a damask panel, antiques cigrettes cases the foot a board concealed by the bedclothes, gateleg drop leaf table joined to cabriole legs with reverse cabrioles forming upward

projections.
Walnut, antitque furniture paw casters south africa oak and beech widely used for both unpainted and decorated frames.
Dimensions of 18thC beds are usually different from those of modern ones, 19th century english wardrobe and mattresses usually have to be made to special order.
fabrics for drapes, hound mantel clock matching other upholstery, irish queen anne furniture and walls.
Side rails linking headboard and footboard are joined to them by various systems of bolts or mortise-and-tenon joints.
Carving is a more delicate, how to carve lion heads feminine style than that of the baroque, 1830 mahogany early empire chest of drawers with great emphasis on shells, bow front chest mahogany hepplewhite-style 1940 flowers and opposed C-scrolls.
Painting in schemes usually contrasting two coloursfor example blue and white, federal drop leaf desk pink and green, birds eye maple antique chest or desk yellow and silver. Gilding, tudor gothic church both matt and burnished. Some carved frames left in natural colour and waxed. For regional
variations, black claw foot coffee table see STYLE AND APPEARANCE above.
Good examples of this period are now scarce, styles of 1900 antique sofa bench and therefore expensive. Many posted beds were dismantled and cannibalized in the late-19th and early-20th centuries; posts were converted into torcheres and standard lamps. Conversions of that kind which have survived in pairs are now being reinstated as posts for made-up beds; the price is usually still high, eighteenth century tresure chest full size but not so astronomic as for an original. Peasant types are especially hard to find.
BEDS About 1770 to 1800
Discipline returns to design in the Louis XVI and Directoire periods, old antique arts and crafts made chair value with most of Europe following French fashion, antique carved curved seat arm chair but taking note of English pattern books.
Louis XIV bed, staffordshire china bottom stamp meanings which sits Sideways in an alcove.
Neo-classical beds
French: Alcove beds with rectangular headboards and footboards, antique carved jacobean sideboard turned and tapered feet.
Italy: Beds resembling enormous settees made in Siena.
Spain: Many earlier models brought up to date by adding neo-classical ornament. Portugal: Simple outlines, joint stools oak 1700 inlay on headboards with Louis XVI cresting; a folding bed-settee (leito a Inglesa), 1830 english draw leaf table was based on an English
mode.
Germany, antique carved victorian furniture bulbous legs Austria, settees antique Switzerland: Marriage beds painted and inscribed with names and dates.
Tyrolean painted bed, 18th century worcester porcelain teapot inscribed and dated 1778.
Scandinavia: Simple four-posters still made in country districts; English, metal coffeee table paw feet German and Dutch influence strong in Denmark, hepplewhite dressing table kneehole French styles predominant in Sweden. Norway produced a provincial version of Danish types.
Danish cradles often boat-shaped.
As in the rococo period (see p. 193), walnut antique metal lined chest but with the addition of bronze as a material for French beds in the 1790s.
Side rails jointed or bolted to cross rails on headboard and footboard. In some examples the side rails are meant to be concealed by bedclothes; in others, antique silver bachelor teapot they are wide, chinese gong carved wood stand antique shaped boards that provide a decorative feature in themselves.
Carving of neo-classical flowers, chinese chippendale style shelves with fretwork sides foliage, e gomme chair medallions and cartouches.
Gilding and painting or oiling and waxing.
Authenticity plus decorative effect will usually ensure a high price at auction for any bed of this period, sales of important 18th century french furniture whatever the type. Even a pair of posts, mahogany over-the-toilet cabinet to which replacement rails and cornice can be added, george iv breakfront china cabinet will command a premium. People will pay a small fortune for the pleasure of going to bed feeling like a film star or a chatelaine.

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FOUR-POST BEDS, danhauser biedermeier sofa 1700-1800
In the early 18thC, waterfall 1920’s dressing table up to about 1730, waltham grandfather clocks cir 1920 the grandest beds were the immensely tall and richly upholstered four-post and half-tester type introduced from the European mainland, the wood furniture louis a few of which have survived in stately homes. From around 1730, french empire style marquetry round center table these went out of fashion, english walnut writing table 6 drawer and the standard bed in households of substance was the four-poster. The richer the owner, hard soldered silver tureen the more lavish their decoration and hangings.
Many 18thC bed posts were later made into standard lamps and plant and candle stands.
Right, antique french louis xvi style medallion bergere bed a ’state” bed, antique drop table with metal feet about 1695, japanese sevres marks very similar to contemporary designs by Marot.
STYLE AND APPEARANCE
1700-1750: Full height panelled headboard with minimal carving. Sometimes a show-wood foot rail. Panelled tester gradually replaced by inner fabric covering or drapes. Generally a shallow frieze carved with classical ornament below straight cornice, verge and folio escapement noise often surmounted by bold gadrooning. High (sometimes 8-ft) posts divided into three sections —a column (often fluted) above a vase (popularly with acanthus carving) above initially a square foot, inlaid game table floral later, japaneseantique tcarved wood buffet with ivory inlay a cabriole leg with lion’s paw or claw-and-ball feet.
1750-1765: Gradual reduction in height. Fashion for Gothic, antique malachite gueridon rococo and chinoiserie designs brought elaborate gilded carving for headboard and cornice. Low, 19th century furniture and russia shaped headboard (separate from posts) backed by and sometimes covered in drapery. Fabric tester with shaped, louis settee cost usually serpentine, museum 18th century pottery with neptune cornice, 1930s dresser with inlay often elaborately scrolled. Frieze frequently absent. A popular design for posts was Gothic cluster columns above acanthus-carved vase and cabriole feet.
1765-1800: Generally no headboard, serpentine front buffet only drapery. Cornices simpler, carved oak figural furniture bracket but often still serpentine, federal and empire style furniture pictures or arched with corner vase finials. Shallow carved frieze. Domed canopies fashionable. Popularly fluted posts, gateleg table asian motif 10 foot long generally
more slender and tapering, jw benson wrist watches above vases or urns on square feet. All parts painted or carved with neo-classical motifs such as anthemions, double hung prisms antique lustre husks, oak drum table paterae, wallendorf germany and ring or ribbons and garlands of flowers.
Rococo-style bed, davenport secret drawers release cxatch posts concealed by hangings.
BEDS AND BEDROOM FURNITURE
MATERIALS
Mostly mahogany (walnut until about 1730) joined after 1770 by satinwood. Generally beech, silver box lion head paw feet or rarely, de berrettino oak, 1750 english furniture mid georgian for parts concealed by upholstery, 18th century glass designs gilding, antique buffet st louis and so on.
George III mahogany four-post bed, woottons desk about 1790, robson & sons sideboard
CONSTRUCTION
Posts generally form continuous uprights from floor to cornice, antique dresser with ship carving on drawer with rails tenoned into them; sometimes secured by metal bolts rather than pegs, classic car wood tray table the holes concealed where necessary by decorative rosettes or suchlike. Bedding still mostly supported on ropes; wooden slats, giltwood music chair running from side to side, hamilton & inches teapot were introduced around 1750.
DECORATION
Principally carving. Figuring of mahogany a decorative feature on panelled headboards. japanned decoration for chinoiserie pieces around 1750-1765. Painted decoration fashionable after about 1775 on a painted or polished wood background.
FINISH
Wax polish; japanning, vintage three prong silver fork siam gilding, corner cupboard, inlay, secret drawer, 18th century paint.
RELATIVE VALUES
Plain mahogany relatively cheap in four figures; up to five figures for later, antique ambry painted and satinwood beds.
Selection of designs for 18thC bedposts.

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