Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Furniture (83)

Fine Victorian Needlepoint Tilt Top Table in walnut having a circular top with floral needlepoint under glass, a turned and tapered pillar with carved leafage decoration and openwork scrolled legs. American or English, circa 1860.

32"h x 22 1/4" diam.

Good Chippendale Sidechair in mahogany with finely carved back with Gothic arches, a slip seat and straight champfered legs joined by an 'H' stretcher. English, circa 1760.

Seat Width: 21.5"
Back Height: 36.5"

Fine English Hepplewhite domed top cellerette in mahogany with satinwood stringing, having tapered legs ending in brass castors. Circa 1790 (interior dividers are later).

Provenance: Eveleth/ Summerford Estate, Washington, D.C.

Length: 20.5”
Width: 15”
Height: 24.25”

Fine George III brass bound oval wine cooler in mahogany with brass carrying handles, removable tin liner and turned tapered legs with later brass castors. Retains a “British Antiques Dealers Association” sticker. Circa 1790.

Length: 24.5”
Width: 18.5”
Height: 22”

Rare American Papier Mache Music Stand by Charles Chinnock , British/American (active 1862-1884), having a shaped adjustable top with painted and mother of pearl inlaid scene of fishermen outside castle walls, a later removable bookrest and an adjustable height pillar and base with stencil and gilt decoration. Retaining a stamped metal patent plaque. Some wear to stencil decoratiion

Top; 16.25" x 13.25"
Table Height: 29"
Max. Height 48.5"

Antique English “Whittle Wood” Box in various exotic woods, the top and front banded with geometric inlays of multi-colored woods. Circa 1870. (Formerly a lap desk, now mounted on a stand.)

Length: 20” Depth: 10”
Height: 23”

Rare George II Writing Stand in mahogany, having a rectangular adjustable top with strut supports and a removable book rest, a fitted side drawer with two glass inkwells, two swing out candle-slides, and an adjustable height cannon-form standard supported by cabriole legs ending in pad feet and brass castors.

English, Circa 1740.

Height when closed: 36-3/4 in (93.3 cm); Width: 22 in (55.9 cm); Depth: 17 in (43.2 cm)
(ink stains on top) ...

Wonderful faux grained and stencilled American “fancy chair” with stencils of an eagle and basket of fruit, faux grained seat and yellow highlights. Circa 1840.

Height: 33”
Width: 17.5”
Depth: 15.75”

For more about this movement, see "American Fancy, Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840" by Sumpter Priddy

Antique Regency four tier Etagere (or what-not) in mahogany, having a crenelated gallery and four flame form gilt finials, turned supports and feet, a medial drawer and a cabinet below . English, circa 1820.

69" h x 18 1/2" w x 14 3/4" d.
(feet and gallery replaced, repaired cracks to door)

Federal Mahogany Pembroke Table with secondary wood of poplar, having rectangular top with two shaped drop-leaves above a frieze drawer, flanked by reeded pilasters and raised on reeded, tapering legs ending in brass casters. New York, circa 1810.

See illustration of similar table from Federal Furniture and Decorative Arts at Boscobel by Berry B. Tracy.

Height: 28.5”
Width: 23.5”
Depth: 36”
Leaf: 11.5”

George III Bedside Table in mahogany, having a tray top with cut out hand holds, above a cabinet with a tambour door, and shallow drawer. Circa 1780.

Height: 29.5"
Width: 19.5"
Depth: 17"

Exceptional George III Serpentine Chest of Drawers or Commode in the French Manner having a moulded edge serpentine top with overhanging sides above two over three conforming drawers, rounded front corners and bold bracket feet. The drawer sides and bottoms are mahogany which is unusual since it was the most expensive wood during the 18th Century. Brass pulls may be original, escutcheons replaced...

Exceptional William IV Tea Poy in nicely figured rosewood having a rectangular cut corner top with moulded edge opening to a fitted interior with two caddies and two later sugar bowls; the whole supported by a turned and fluted shaft. Circa 1825-30. (Loss to one rear foot.)

Height: 30 ”
Length: 19.5 ”
Depth: 14.5”

Set of antique English 3-tiered bedsteps in mahogany, the top two steps hinged, and opening to storage wells and the whole supported by turned legs. Circa 1800-1840.

Height: 25.5”
Width: 16.75”
Depth: 26.375”

Fine antique English supper table in mahogany, having a circular, carved tilt top above a turned pillar and raised on cabriole legs with acanthus carved knees and pad feet. Circa 1840-60.

Diameter: 34”
Height, open: 28”

Fine Late Regency Papier-Mâché Tray having a shaped gallery with gilt stencil decoration and inlaid with mother of pearl. English, circa 1835, mounted on a later bamboo form ebonized stand.

Height: 23.25 ” Length: 29.5” Width: 21.5”

Fine George II Tilt-top Tea Table in mahogany having a single board top with a "birdcage" support above a "cannon" turned shaft and supported by three cabriole legs ending in pad feet. English, circa 1750.

Diameter: 35"
Height: 28"

The serving of tea in the 18th Century was an important social ritual for those wealthy enough to be able to afford the tea. Specialized furniture and boxes (tea caddies) evolved around the "tea ceremony"

Antique American candlestand in cherry having square top with “baby’s bottom” corners, nice vasiform turned pillar and cabriole leg ending in pad foot. Circa 1780-1800.

Length: 16.75”
Depth: 16.25”
Height: 28.25”