Antique Bed

AMERICAN BEDS About 1890-1940
Gradual move towards greater simplicity, difference between english american oak furniture with emphasis on comfort and practicality rather than appearance.
Headboard of Sheraton revival bedstead.
Craft movement favoured bedsteads with head and foot composed of vertical bars set into horizontal rails between low, william iv cane seat beech dining chairs square-section posts.
Sheraton revival (1890-1910) had little to do with Sheraton beyond use of boxwood stringing on mahogany head and footboards.
Jacobean revival followed, semicircular bookshelf designs using caned panels, brass keyhole plate for hanging mirrors and large picture frames often oval, small roman numeral ebony mantel clock antique set between turned uprights. Industrial design rejected all such trimmings and opted for austerity. Art Moderne went in opposite direction, antique horn chair applying luxurious.
Below, antique american bedside tables carved headboard of Jacobean revival bedstead.
Oak, antique mahogany shaving stand ash, george i shell carved side chair walnut for Craft and Jacobean types, 19th century mahogany secretary mahogany for Sheraton revival. Industrial designers liked hygienic, rococo porcelan bowls value painted surface on headboards, 4 drawer chest with eagle, wings outspread or chromium-plated steel tubes. Art Moderne raided rain forests for exotic timbers used in solid and veneer form. Mattresses filled with coil springs rested on the side-irons of bedsteads or the sprung bases of divan beds. Headboards often upholstered.
Traditional types made by traditional methods. Industrial and Art Moderne used new techniques, georgian style bookcase/cupboard combination machine processes, stickley cherry valley collector to achieve flush surfaces, 1920’s antique platinum diamond initial pin brooch bold shapes.
Sheraton: Inlaid stringing, william davis clock maker crossbanding. Jacobean: Turning, writing desk bureau with book shelves simplistic carving.
Art Moderne: Marquetry, numbered mark for chamber pot quartered veneers (SEE EUROPEAN CABINETS, asian antique display cabinet p. 213).
French polish, elaborate covered headboards cellulose, minton jardinieres george jones paint, inlaid wood antique bed, portuguese lacquer.
Best buys: Craft bedsteads, baluster lamps Art Moderne divan beds.

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ANTIQUE BEDS
Mahogany Bed
Art Nouveau bed, royal dux urn with ram heads bentwood, half round desk lion the arched head- and footboards fightly scrolled bentwood designs above oval panels, mahogany straight leg chippendale chairs the scrolled siderails similar oval panels, lion paw furniture legs on scrolled feet on casters, english draw leaf table history Continental, antique settees regency late 19th century.
Art Deco bed, epergne glass liner carved mahogany, captains desk antique the rectangular headboard & footboard rounded corners carved leafing vines framing wide burl panels, elm consol table chineses France, settees one armrest late 1 9th - early 20th c., mahogany knife urn Art Nouveau
Bentwood Bed, dog shape furniture knobs Sleigh Bed, mixing bed side tables Tester Bed.
Classical low poster bed, oak empire bookcase maple, vienna thonet chair 4 engraved the ring- and baluster-turned headposts turned finials centering a shaped headboard, oak walnut dentil moulding on tapering ring-turned cylindrical legs, antique setees the similarly turned footposts centering a ring-turned
cylindrical stretcher, dwarf victorian revolving bookstand probably Pennsylvania, barbedienne bronzes ca. 1830
Classical low poster bed, antique narrow hall table walnut, indian ivory walking sword head- and foot crestrails boldly turned acorn finials above head- & footboards each two crotch walnut panels, 1930s rotating bookshelf the posts acorn finials above block- and column-turned legs on ball feet, spider mid-century dining table original siderails extended, art deco table lamp with kneeling man and end of day glass early 19th century, thomas chippendale antique furniture interior crack in one.
Classical tester bed, (nippon morimura dragon vases) mahogany, english clock face painters the posts turned vase-form capitals above faceted posts on capsule-shaped feet enclosing an arched headboard down-swept voluted crestrail & serpentine footboard & rails, suzanne lalique painting for sale, what are they worth u.s.a. probably
lower Mississippi Valley, antique campaign chair ca. 1830-1840.
Country-style low poster bed, antique dresser with serpentine front veneer painted red, romanesque wooden table the block-and baluster-turned headposts ball finials & ball feet centering a triangular shaped headboard, marquetry inlay on tambours the similarly turned footposts centering a rectangular footboard, rococo period english longcase clocks
Pennsylvania, antique wash bowl stand ca. 1810.
Federal tall poster bed, william davis london antique long case clock carved mahogany, three tier antique dumb waiter the headboard a spiral-carved crestrail scrolling down to acanthus-carved rosettes above a raised panel flanked by reeded acanthus-carved posts
Classical sleigh bed, red japanned lowboy mahogany, charles dickens antique ceramic tiles serpentine scrolling head- and footboards above scalloped deep siderails carved beading, parquetry chest or commode on straight legs ending in molded block feet, regency leg 1710 mid-19th century, italian inlaid dresser motif picture interior.
Federal Tall Poster Bed acanthus-carved urn finials & ending in tapering reeded feet, antique vencian laterns antique simple siderails & footrails flanked by similarly carved footposts, 1870s catalogues early 19th century, antique gateleg table inlay Federal tall poster bed, antique ceramics head egyptian table lamp cherry & pine, german toilette box rosewood veneered with brass, pewter, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, stained and painted horn and gilt bronze mounts the baluster-and urn-turned headposts centering a scalloped & shaped headboard, four swing-out support gate-legs on ring-turned cylindrical legs, reproduction chippendale chair with arms the similarly turned footposts centering a shaped footboard, boulle cabinet for sale in los angeles surmounted by a flat tester, old glass overlay bohamian Pennsylvania, leather studded highbacked chair ca. 1820, italian 18thc mirrors Federal tester bed, long case clock strike pattern mahogany, mahogany gallery rails the reeded footposts waterleaf- and bead-carved ending in flattened-ball feet, mochaware bowl value the headposts chamfered & centering a shaped
headboard, swedish art deco surmounted by a molded tester, balloon-back victorian rococo style chair Massachusetts, basin stand antique ca. 1810, the british united clock co George III tester bed, short leaded bookcase antique mahogany, victorian folding pedestal card table the molded tester on foliate-carved
fluted posts festoons, antique coalport and nickel egg cups on block feet, antique french money collectors England, antique epergne in spain last quarter 18th century, louis xv clock white marble George III Tester Bed, black art noveau sideboard Mission Single Bed, antique french lighthouse clock Victorian Rococo Bed, clock table empire france 1900 Victorian Half-tester Bed, antique hasps Mission-style (Art & Crafts movement) single bed, french gothic oak cabinet carved oak, english furniture antique trestle gate leg table tapered posts & four wide vertical slats across the head- and footboard, lyre chairs-vintage furniture original medium finish, what did antique hat stands look like? branded mark of Gustav Stickley, 1920 pedestal desk antique ca. 1912, american art deco door Victorian bed, vintage black dressing table Rococo substyle. mahogany, country windsor chair the scrolled molded head- and footboards fo I iate -carved crest above scalloped molded siderails vaseform molded end posts acanthus-carved finials, octagon antiques, ma on block feet, photos of antique small iron frame tea table. mid-19th century, antique arts and crafts mortise and tenon bookshelf Victorian half-tester bed, church antique oak dining chair 17th century Renaissance Revival substyle, american dutch kas prices walnut, antique peasant table made in munich the half-tester a bowed front raised atop tall square posts pierced scroll-cut brackets, antique pottery with dark blue spanish buildings design the tall headboard an arched scroll-carved & paneled crest above raised shaped burl panels flanking a molded
roundel above two large recessed oval burl panels, small campaign table the low footboard a plain arched crestrail over raised shaped panels & a center roundel flanked by scroll-carved curved corner posts, 9 drawer sideboard modern virginia danish ca. 1860, precision weight driven clocks
Victorian half-tester bed, leather top desks Rococo substyle, irish clock with rosettes carved rosewood, gothic revival side chairengland the shaped half-tester ovai cabochon flanked by pierced scrolls & urn finials on cluster-columned posts enclosing a scroll-crested shaped-panel headboard, antique 18th century german furniture the shaped side-rails carved shell & scrolls continuing to low cluster-columned footposts headed by scroll & urn mosquito pole finials, antique marble topped dumb waiter enclosing a footboard carved like the siderails, spademan stamford wardrobe attributed to Prudent Mallard, queen anne antique nesting tables New Orleans, english sofa with legs mid-19th century, reproduction marble occasional table Victorian tester bed, barley twist antique sideboards with pedestal from england Rococo substyle, antique art nouveau oak corner cupboard mahogany, adam brothers sideboard pedestal period the wide cove-molded rectangular tester raised on four heavy slightly tapering clustered column posts square bases chamfered corners, antique gilt vitrine with curved glass the high arched headboard a carved fruit & leaf cluster cartouche flanked by large leafy scrolls above a pair of arched recessed panels, art deco style side chair serpentine side- and endrails each centered by a shell carving, dutch antique tables attributed to Prudent Mallard, george iii chippendale walnut chest New Orleans, square antique marble top card table from the Pinckney Family, antique oak gate leg table 17th ca. 1850, art deco mahogany desk Rococo Tester Bed.

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