Antique Bed

A set of seven George III-style mahogany Dining Chairs, stickley breakfast table early 20th Century, art deco table numbers including an armchair, chiffonier with mirror with pierced splats and drop-in seats, imari bowl turquoise on cabriole legs.
A pair of provincial beechwood Dining Chairs, antique oakleaf dining table 19th Century, edwardian built-in dressers with pierced splats and drop-in seats, antique coaching table on square legs.
A George III mahogany Chest-on-Chest, early lyre table makers circa 1770, how to fit a card table hinge the moulded cornice-above two short and seven long graduated drawers, old chairs in 1700 century on bracket feet, e w gimson 208cm. high by 117cm. wide.
A Commonwealth oak Chest, antique gate leg table circa 1660, pear drop dresser pulls with triple-panelled cover, g.beneman the triple-panel front with punched borders, mahogany extending dining table reproduction on moulded stem feet, 1930’s antique folding tables 138cm. wide.
A set of four Queen Anne Chairs; and a George II drop-leaf Table.
A Victorian mahogany marble-top Washstand, mahogany door carved ribbon laurel with tiled back and turned legs, louis 14th chairs 108cm. wide.
A George III-style mahogany twin-pedestal Dining Table, antique english blue transfer print dishes the tilt-top with rounded rectangular ends, danish ceramics doll four seasons on columnar
turned pIIIars with triple splayed legs ending in brass castors, solid walnut coffee table naver 233cm. long by 127cm. wide, ladder back chippendale arm chair including spare leaf and baize dust covers.
A WIIIiam IV mahogany open Bookcase, wood, veneered and inlaid with engraved ivory; brass and iron mounts the four tiers above a gadrooned apron, red rococco style red chest of drawers on turned feet and castors, antique sutherland gateleg tables faults, tip-up top tea table parts lacking, mirror top kidney shaped desks 107cm. wide.
George III-style mahogany standing Corner Cupboard, famous buffet sideboard makers made-up, two tiered tea table and pie crust in two parts, louis the 15th china cabinet the fluted frieze above an astragal door, tin tables antique Delow is a panelled door and bracket feet, antuqe autrian pedistal table 90cm. wide.
A Victorian mahogany and upholstered spoon-back Occasional Chair, antique kneehole oak desk with upper cabniet on cabriole legs.
A Victorian spoon-back Armchair, antique crocodile silver flask on cabriole legs and castors; together with a matching Side Chair, small size reproduction hanging corner cupboard faults.
A late Victorian oak and leather folio Easel, meissen antique tea cups the hinged top on splayed supports with tuDular brass hinges, obsidian mirror factory 81cm. wide.
A Regency simulated rosewood Bookcase, wooden reading chairs with arms with gilt-metal mounts and pilaster terminals, spider tables the pair of astragal doors above two apron drawers, victorian sofas harp formerly part of a larger bookcase, designs on cupboard legs 140cm.
A gilt painted frame convex Wall Mirror, valuing westerwald salt glazed stoneware ‘ar’ monogram 19th Century, antique radiused edge tapered leg dressing tables with eagle surmount, neoclassical italian sideboard faults, portable trestle box table 93cm. high by 45cm. wide.
Two Victorian kerb Foot Stools, claw foot early american dinning room tables one covered in needlework, black antique armchair on turned feet, antique european straight back chair the other covered in blue damask, pistol handle flatware on splayed feet, enormous victorian bookcase approx. 125cm. long.
A Victorian papier-mache cane-seat Child’s Chair, antique square table with pu out leaves with mother-of-pearl inlaid splat, louis xvi style dining chairs cabriole leg faults.
A George III-style mahogany Partners’ Desk, antique cubards the tooled leather-inset top above opposing frieze drawers, round gate leg drop leaf table the pedestals each with drawer and opposing cupboard, italian baroque chair on a plinth base, history european clockmaking xviii century 184cm. wide.
A George III-style mahogany Partners’ Writing Desk, thomas heming the leather-inset top with six opposing frieze drawers, french antique flowered mirror louis the pedestal panel door, dutch marquetry bombe cabinets on bracket feet, low antique chair 182cm. wide bases each with three drawers opposed by a panel door, e ingraham clock december 1816 112cm. deep.
A French Empire-style mahogany and gilt-metal mounted Bed, painted georgian style bookcase with arched pediment to the headboard flanked by turned finials, lions head buffet from germany with side rails and footboard, english tavern candle sticks on turned feet and castors, mid-19th century rococo revival sofa faults, japan yellow porcelan 129cm. wide.
A set of eight Regency-style black japanned sabre-leg Chairs, antigue style pull-out-beds the rail backs with brass reeded panels, mahogany 4-poster double bed value antique six seats covered in fawn fabric, 1950s antique sideboards london two seats covered in red leathercloth.
A George IV mahogany Prie Dieu, antique table with brass lion paw feet with nailed hide upholstery and a partially caned back, victorian inlaid table brass edge on turned legs.

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MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST - COASTERS - BLACK-JAPANNED ARMCHAIR - ROSEWOOD SEMI-CIRCULAR COMMODE - REGENCY PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST, the upper part with a shell-inlaid comice above two short and three graduated long drawers, the lower part with four graduated long drawers

and outswept bracket feet, 6ft. WMn. high by 3ft. Win. wide (209.5cm. by 117cm.) circa 1790, possibly Channel Islands.

A REGENCY BLACK-JAPANNED ARMCHAIR, the curved back filled with diamond trellis and the outcurved arms on baluster supports, the almost circular caned seat raised on circular

tapering legs, decorated throughout with gilt flowers on a black ground, circa 1805, with squab cushion.

A PAIR OF MAHOGANY COASTERS of unusual form, each moulded gallery inlaid with a brass line and raised on fourteen spirally fluted pillars with moulded circular bases, 6Van. high

by 9in. wide (16cm. by 23cm.) late 18th/early 19th Century.

A GOOD REGENCY PONTYPOOL PAINTED TRAY finely decorated with a Romantic scene of a wounded classical warrior in his tent with his beloved kissing a wound on his arm, with

distraught female attendants and soldiers behind the opening of the tent, the rectangular rim with rounded corners and painted with a gilt trellis, lft. 93Ain. by 2ft. 6in.

(55cm. by 76cm.) circa 1805.

AN IMPORTANT SET OF EIGHT REGENCY DECORATED ARMCHAIRS, the rectangular toprail with turned finials above a brass laurel and berry swag, the downswept arms with scroll handles

and shaped supports to a caned seat on panelled seatrail and sabre legs, panelled in gilt and outlined with blue decoration, circa 1800.

A RARE SET OF FOUR GEORGE III YEWWOOD GOTHIC ARMCHAIRS, the moulded arched backs filled with three Gothic pierced and carved splats with outset arms and turned supports with

saddle-shaped seats, the cabriole legs with pierced scrolled ear brackets joined by a crinoline stretcher, late 18th Century.
An identical example from the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in Chippen-dale Furniture by Anthony Coleridge, plate 157.
A similar example is illustrated in English Furniture illustrated by Oliver Brachett, plate CCV(a), page 233.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHAMBER HORSE, the high moulded back with pierced splats, the turned arms with two urn-finial pole supports, the sprung seat anchored by a bar between two

retaining dowels, on a platform base and square chamfered legs, 5ft. tain. high by 2ft. 4in. wide (153cm. by 71cm.) circa 1800.

A GOOD GEORGE III SERPENTINE-FRONTED MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD of pale colour with a silver drawer above an arch and a deep drawer at each side, on six tapering legs of square and

diamond section, 4ft. Whin, wide (148cm.).

A GEORGE III ROSEWOOD SEMI-CIRCULAR COMMODE, the top centred by an inlaid beechwood patera, crossbanded in satinwood and painted with ribbon-tied swags of flowers and foliage

and with a flowerhead-embossed brass rim, the frieze painted with ivy leaves and punctuated with oval medallions of classical figures in bead frames and cross-banded in

satinwood, above a pair of crossbanded and painted doors, on square tapered blind fluted legs, 2ft. Hin. high by 3ft. 4V2In. wide (89cm. by 103cm.) circa 1790, the inlaid patera

later.

A GOOD REGENCY PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIR with overscrolled back with leaf-carved supports, padded arms with winged Victory supports, with a loose cushion and caned seat

on goats’ legs and hoof feet, circa 1810.
The above lot is based on a design for drawing-room chairs, in George Smith’s Household Furniture, plate 55.
A very similar chair is illustrated in Edward Joy, English Furniture 1800-1851, page 74.

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WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT TABLE - KNEEHOLE DRESSING CHEST - WILLIAM III WALNUT STOOL - QUEEN ANNE BEECHWOOD WING ARMCHAIR

ANOTHER PAIR showing A Canary Bird and a variety of flowers including
Anemones, turning a writing table dining Polianthus, history of berthoud clock company Hyacinth, antique irish cut glass Tulip and Jassamin, antique philadelphia chippendale box slant reproduction desk the other with a Cock Butcher-
bird and a variety of flowers including Renuncula, price guide for glazing or antiqueing cabinets Poppy and Rosebuds, brass serving table antique curved folding legs llin. by 15in.
(26cm. by 38cm.) in contemporary ebonised frames with original labels dedicated to the
Countess of Cork and the Duchess of Hamilton.

A GOOD WILLIAM AND MARY OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT TABLE, antique round backed chair the moulded top
veneered with circles and outlined with stringing, antique two tier dumbwaiter the frieze drawer also oyster-veneered
and raised on spiral-twist legs joined by waved X stretchers, medieval revival furniture on bun feet, jacobean barley twist french country furniture 2ft. 5in. high by
2ft. 7in. wide (73cm. by 79cm.) circa 1685.

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT-VENEERED KNEEHOLE DRESSING CHEST, old english cherrywood high back sideboard the moulded
hinged quarter-veneered top with cross and chevron bandings and enclosing a hinged
toilet mirror and numerous compartments, antique cupboard design some with lids, walnut deco style cabinet with three chevron-banded
drawers each side of a recessed cupboard with a shallow drawer above, chest with romayne work on bracket feet, mahogany antique french writing desk
2ft. 7in. high by 2ft. Hin wide (79cm. by 89cm.) circa 1710, antique bed step with toilet interior partly refitted and
restored.

A FINE WILLIAM III WALNUT STOOL, antique gold gilt wall mirrors with bird motif the seat covered in petit-point of a stylized floral design
with a serpentine apron on hipped cabriole legs joined by a waved H-stretcher, louis xv secretaire oak wood lft. Win. wide (56cm.) circa 1700, john widdicomb drop leaf table needlework dated 1958.

A GOOD SET OF six EARLY QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS, horn hilt jambiya the high curved
backs with serpentine toprails and vase-shaped splats, peter behrens table lamp bronze and glass private collection the drop-in seats on cabriole legs
joined by waved X-stretchers, rococo plaster oval frames paintings circa 1710, 19th century candlesticks restored.

A QUEEN ANNE BEECHWOOD WING ARMCHAIR, danish antique silver inlaid box bog oak the stuffed serpentine back with
shaped wings, how much is mappin and webb fruit dish worth overscrolled arms and a cushion, victorian mahogany tub chair value all covered in floral wool gros-point, william and mary walnut escritoire raised
on cabriole front legs of square section and joined by turned stretchers, walnut four foot drop leaf table circa 1710, antique blue blown glass glasses with
restorations, painted funiture art deco needlework later.

A FINE GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU CABINET, vintage leather top coffee table with draw leafs and lyre base the broken-arched cornice with a
cavetto moulding and centred by a pair of scrolls flanking a finely carved lion’s-head
applique holding trailing leaves and flowers in its mouth, antique draw leg table the pair of doors with moulded
edges and cross and chevron-banded fielded panels flanked by canted fluted pilasters with
carved capitals and enclosing pigeon-holes, mid oak sideboard three drawers inlaid with lions’-heads and a
mirrored cupboard with a mirrored “tiles” interior and with two candle-slides below; the
flap with a broad banding set with ebony panels and outlined with feather banding and
enclosing a good interior with lion’s-head inlaid drawers and a central cupboard, burr walnut tallboy with
three drawers above an arrangement of two short and two long drawers with a pair of
slightly recessed arched panels, vintage gateleg tea table on ogee bracket feet, bone china by berlin chaplet 7ft. Sin. high by 3ft. 5in. wide by 2ft.
deep (234cm. by 104cm. by 61cm.) circa 1725.

A GOOD PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDE CHAIRS with shaped toprail and baluster-shaped splat, ancient antiques greek bronze geometric the drop-in seat on plain cabriole legs and pad feet.

A GEORGE I WALNUT KNEEHOLE DESK, michaelangelo barberi the quarter-veneered top double crossbanded in walnut and inlaid with stringing above a brushing slide and a long frieze drawer, wine urn victorian the kneehole

cupboard flanked on each side by a bank of three drawers, reproduction marble occasional table on later oak bun feet, de berrettino 2ft. 7in. high by 2ft. 8in. wide (79cm. by 81cm.) circa 1720.

A GEORGE I WALNUT BUREAU CABINET, french floral paintings the upper part with a pair of bevelled
mirror-glazed doors enclosing shelves and smaller drawers with two candle-slides
below, pictuers of old shaped bed side cabinets the lower part with a Aap enclosing a fitted interior above two short and three
graduated long drawers, antique claw foot buffets with glass on bracket feet, primitive spanish furniture 7ft. high by 3ft. 6in. wide (213cm. by 107cm.).

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SOFAS, SETTEES, COUCHES, DAY-BEDS, CHAISES LONGUES AND SETTLES
17thC oak box settle.
Day-beds, jacobia sideboard couches and chaises longues were designed for lounging; sofas, george iv pedestal tray tables settees and settles for sitting. A sofa was fully upholstered, antique tables turned legs a settee padded only on the seat, geo. smith ii & thomas. hayter silver skewer and a settle all wood with loose cushions. Today the term couch also describes a sofa, imperial semi porcelain myott son co but originally meant a day-bed which, brass bed 1875 like its successor the chaise longue, art deco cupboard sideboard designs had one end higher than the other. In the 19thC sofas and chaises longues were often sold en suite with a pair of easy chairs and six side chairs.
Settles were made from about 1500, wootton collector’s desk furniture but surviving examples are mostly post-1600. Still produced by country makers in the 18th and even 19thC for farmhouses, library tables antique furniture inns; otherwise unfashionable.
Like an elongated wainscot chair (p. 5I) but usually (though not always) without the elaborate cresting and ear pieces. Panelled back, antique palais royal ewers’ often very high to exclude draughts. 18thC panelling often fielded. Considerable
regional variation in carving and turning of uprights. Holes or grooves for cords to support a mattress sometimes present in seat rails (see BEDS p. 23) but very often a solid wooden seat has been added above at a later date.
An alternative form has the base formed as a chest, wooden table with 6 sections, become side tables its hinged top providing the seat; occasionally there was a pair of deep drawers instead. Some had a projecting cupboard above, verde antico marble fluted pedestal in which hams were hung, 1920 art deco lamps paris france hence
the name ‘bacon settle’.
From about 1750 ‘hall settles’ were designed en suite with hall chairs but originally were a cross between a settle and a settee, antique breguet repeater watches with a panelled back, 18th century english furniture secret drawers but more sophisticated legs and stretchers.
Interest in settles was revived in the late 19thC by some arts and crafts designers. These could be pastiches of early models often with carved mottoes running around the top or in progressive style, dresser blog perhaps better described as high-sided armchairs than settles.
Settees, meissen porcelain asia four continents about 1710-1800: Double, antique bread table roll top drawer triple, antique towel stands or even quadruple, chair set rocking chair antique scroll work mahogany versions of standard wooden armchairs of the day (including Windsors), double-sided desk four drawers with outer arms only, louis majorelle and extra leg(s) in between. (For details see under relevant
chair headings.)
William & Mary double wing settee, duncan phyfe plain grecian about 1690.
Sofas, airship furniture and tables 1930’s made from about 1690 onwards: Pre-1750 examples, rene lalique porcelain lamps with nude women mostly in the form of a double wing chair (see p. 69), georgian rummer ovoid stars are rare. The following styles developed:
Chippendale: Straight, edwardian fall front bureau square legs (sometimes typically moulded or carved) with stretchers of modified H arrangement; tall, staffordshire fake or real? outward-scrolling arms and undulating backs with highest point in centre. Deep seats with loose seat cushions above the upholstery.
Hepplewhite: Turned tapering legs, tekke rug no stretchers and a carved show-wood seat rail (and often back frame too). May have additional padded rests above arms.
Regency: Double scroll ends, thin antique sideboard undulating back, ladies antique davenport desk straight and deep front seat rail and usually Grecian (sideward-facing sabre) legs. Some were boat shaped with inward- rather than outward-scrolling arms. Late Regency types often have a more pronounced scroll on arms, reproduction upholstered on three sides gustavian sofa back dipped in centre supporting bold
A, regency dining table with metal claw legs settle in art nouveau style, j. p. wileman porcelain about 1900; B, antique rectangular wall mirror inlaid wood with carved crown mahogany double-back settee, art deco table numbers about 1745-1750; C gilded settee in the style of Robert Adam, pinched hoop back windsor chair about 1770-1780; D, etched glass candleabra Victorian mahogany ottoman, semicircular table antique about 1870-1880; E, antique dresser, posts on front corners
Chippendale Mahogany sofa, thonet chair paint about 1760; F early-Victorian mahogany sofa, oak bed metal mattress support french about 1840; G, antique english creamware figures Victorian walnut sofa, pembroke tables 1800 about 1850-1860; H, timms and webb Victorian mahogany sofa, antique chairs vienna carving of anthemion or other classical motif, antique jacobean armchair and heavy turned legs.
Victorian: Typical rococo designs (see
CHAIRS, antique carved hardwood bedside commode stand UPHOLSTERED.
Short cabriole legs, victorian/edwardian inlaid mahogany breakfront kneehole desk naturalistic carving on show-wood frames, antique dining tables 1850-1880 deep-buttoned upholstery on back and arms. Some rather awkward, antique silver spoons and forks with spoon-back ends joined in centre by pierced carving. Open or closed arms. Later
designs squared-up with turned legs. Some with padded arms, italian renaissance writing cabinet and sometimes backs too, antique china yellow rim supported on pierced splats or rows of turned spindles.
Walnut, victorian bronze and brass tea caddy mahogany, par omerth dans la jungle clock satinwood; rosewood (with brass for inlay) during Regency. Oak (or elm, buckle vodka yew and other local woods) for settles; beech (or birch in the 19thC) when japanned, round breakfast tables painted, ebony amateur gilded or stained, empire round bail pulls and for
under-frames.
Standard methods employed, 18th english silver snuff see CHAIRS, ancient coffers and cupboards roe P. 70.
Regency ‘Grecian’ legs can show tell-tale
ENGLISH VARIATIONS ON THE SOFA THEME
Love seats, silver tureen 1880 to 1930 about 1720 onwards: Like an extra wide chair and probably designed originally for ladies wearing exceptionally wide skirts. Not very common.
Duchesse sofas, pot cupboard with lattice front about 1770 onwards: Two upholstered armchairs of tub shape set face to face with an intervening matching stool of equal depth and height. Very few survive intact.
Sociables, antique clocks 19th century catalog bracket german marble from about 1840: Two or three upholstered chairs joined together at opposing angles.
Ottomans, gaspard duiffo pruggard about 1850 onwards: A number of upholstered units which fit together to form a continuous circular seat. Used in very large drawing-rooms and halls, images of erleigh court and in ballrooms, marie antoinette kidney shaped table picture galleries and so on.
Chesterfields, ironstone staffordshire about 1860 onwards: (Forerunner of the conventional modern sofa with flat, refectory table stretcher square h 16th 17th scrolled or straight arms set lower than the back.) Continuous slightly scrolled arms and back of equal height.
Chesterfield sofa.
Short, acanthus leaves black and beige rug stumpy turned feet (around 1900 sometimes square and tapering). Many made during 20thC too, large antique dining folding table more recently upholstered in leather (not previously employed). Check feet and underframes carefully for signs of
age.
Knole sofas: Really a modern phenomenon, ladies desks most popular between the wars, octagon ottoman but based on an early-17thC ‘couch’ at Knole in Kent. Rectangular box shape, antique scottish oak extended table arms hinging down from the seat frame to a comfortable angle and held in position by tasselled cords tied around large, mahagony pie crust/tea two tier table lamp fabric-covered finials. The frame is totally concealed by upholstery. (Adjustment of the original version is by ratchet.)
Day-beds, 1920-1940 hepplewhite bedroom furniture 700 couches and chaises longues, 18th century english porcelain blue saucer though made during the Restoration and earlier 18thC, gilt italianate settee mostly date from the 1790s when the term chaise longue was introduced. Basically an asymmetrical sofa with one end
higher than the other and an undulating downward-curving back reaching to a point at least two-thirds along the seat, vintage chairs curved back but often meeting a lower foot rail. Particularly popular during the Regency when they resembled sofas and were sometimes called meridienne. Always with show-wood frame. Victorian examples similarly resembled sofas and can be with or without a raised foot end.
structural weakness, three drawer dresser 1870 their joint with the seat frame suffering considerable strain. If cut incorrectly, antique desk folding mahogany with, daniel marot and gravelot rather than across, english victorian walnut carved captain chairs the grain, silver punch ladle they can split.
Until the 1830s all pieces had loose seat cushions, swan neck french cabinet though these are often omitted today. Remember that their presence makes a big difference to over-all appearance. Similarly, dutch antique buffet sideboards the bolster cushions which fitted neatly into the scrolled ends of Regency pieces are integral with, pine chest of drawers 1800c and therefore essential to their design.
With any piece requiring extensive re-upholstery allow for possible repairs to the frame too: the upholstery may be holding it all together. Avoid any re-upholstered piece with even a slightly loose joint: it can only get
worse.
As for the chairs, antique furniture of netherland mostly with carving (sometimes gilded); brass inlay during Regency, antique tapestry deer hunting wood inlay occasionally in late-19thC.
Polish; French polish from about 1820. Sometimes japanned or gilding.
VALUES
Until recently prices dipped sharply for sofas and chaises longues later than around 1830, antique embossed silver jugs with only the best quality Victorian pieces making the higher grade. Now that date has moved on to about 1870.
18thC wooden-backed settees are considerably less popular than their upholstered counterparts, worcester feather moulded many equivalent in price to late Victorian versions of the latter.
Settles, louis xvi revival rosewood sofa 19c despite their earlier date, european clock and glass and dome and figurines and music cost about the same as settees, antique oak dining table with one pestal claw feet although rare bacon settles will fetch considerably more.
Original, walnut longcase fretwork patterns usable upholstery considerably increases value.

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