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In the possession of Messrs. Gill and Reigate. io ft. 6 ins. high, x 6 ft. 4 ins. wide. Top, I ft. zi ins. deep. Bottom, 1 ft. 7 ins. deep. Date nhnnt 1780 I iu. 113. MAHOGANY CHINA CASE. 7 ft. S ins. high x 4 ft. 2 ins. wide x I ft. 3 ins. deep. Date about 1775-SC. In the possession of Messrs. Gill and Reigale. 9 ft. 7J high x 5 ft. 3 ins. wide. Upper carcase II ins. deep. Lower carcase I ft. 6 ins. deep. Oatp nhnut 1775. near Newcastle-under-Lvme, and at this date the ware was in high favour...
Satinwood Cumw 1
I' 1 he i session nl l II. F Kindeimann. Esq. 4 ft. 4 is. w ' e 2 ft. Si ins. high I ft. qi ins. deep. Date about 1790. of Leaning height had ousted many of the tall pieces from the more important apartments at the close of the eighteenth century. The commode had become an indispensable adjunct to the side table. Sometimes the French character of the marble top was retained, but more often the tops were elaborately inlaid with engraved marqueterie. Fig. 331 is one of a pair made for Lismore...
Satinwood Inlaid Writing And Dressing Table 1
In the possession of Messrs. A. B. Daniell amp Son. 3 ft. high 2 ft. 4 ins. wide when closed v I ft. 10 ins. deep. Date about 1790-5. decorated on an elaborate plan, the workmanship and the material used in this wardrobe are both poor in quality. The backs are of common deal, and much of the sat in wood is veneered on pine. Fig. 304 is a good example of the higher class of furniture which was made shortly after 1790. This wardrobe has the same graceful swan-necked pediment as in Fig. 303, but...
Mahogany Drawing Table 1
2 ft. wide I ft. 6 ins. deep 2 ft. 5 ins. high. Date about 1790. Table l ft. 3 ins. wide 1 ft. IJ m deep 2 ft. 4 ins. high. Look Carrier 1 ft. 3 ins. wide x 9 ins. deep . ' s ins. high. Total height I ft. 4J in-. Date about 1795-1800. wood, the effect of which is still further enhanced by the bow sweep of the front. Fig. 309 is of a rarer type, the delicate turned legs, ornamented with spiral flutes and carved water-leaf decoration, indicating the direct influence of Thomas Sheraton. The tops...
Painted And Decorated Bedstead
In the possession of Messrs. Gill BKeigate. 7 it. o ins. long 5 ft. o ins. wide x 9 ft. 2 ins. high. we should expect to find numerous examples of the newer and more convenient form preserved at the present day, which is certainly not the fact. Added to this, there is evidence, in the chronicles of the house of Gillow, to show that enclosed dressing-tables which had little or nothing to recommend them, in comparison were made up to the close of the eighteenth century, and for some years after....
Mahogany Chair With Ormolu Mountings 1
3 ft. 5 ins. from flour to top of back. 2 ft. 2 ins. across front IWseat. 2 ft. 2 ins. depth of seatButside. detail with Hepplewliite was the tapering of legs on the inside faces only a feature which imparted a peculiar appearance of grip and power to otherwise fragile furniture. This inside taper will be noticed later on, when the work of Hepplewliite is considered. Figs. 41 and 42 are two large arm-chairs of carved mahogany, showing the Adam influence in the details of the front legs. Both of...
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A House on the East Side of Mansfield Street, opposite Lord Scarsdale's, with 2 Coach Houses and Stabling for 6 horses, with a Ground Rent of 37, 16s 7,700 A House on the Royal Terrace, the second on the West from Adam Street, occupied by John Hart Cotton, Esq., let on lease for 7, 14 or 21 years at 210 per annum. Ground Rent, 34, 13s. . . . 3,200 A House on the East Side of Adam Street and upon the Terrace, let to William Gunthorpe, Esq., on lease for 3, 5, 7 or 11 years at 200 per annum....
Gillows of Lancaster and London
HE necessity for devoting a considerable amount of space to the chronicles of the house of Gillow would not have been so urgent were it not necessary to enter into a mass of detail regarding the many inaccurate statements which have been made regarding the old firm. It is hardly fair to blame any person, or persons, in particular, for the genesis and propagation of these fables it is, perhaps, with a house of business more than two centuries old, in the natural order of things that they should...
Mahogany Corner Chair 1
2 ft. 9i ins. high. 1 ft. Ill ins. total width of seat. Seat, I ft. 10 ins. x i ft. 6 ins. I in. high x I ft. 7 ins. across seat. Date ahnnt 1805. Figs- 353 an 354 introduce the new fashion after 1792, which persisted until the English Empire style of Hope became firm ' established in the first decade of the nineteenth century. These chairs may be described as typically English in character, and they are certainly the best of the creations of this period. They differ in one important respect...
MAHOGANY ARM CHAIR Mtb
3 ft. I in. high from floor to top of hack. I ft. ioJ ins. across front of seat. able difficulty, compared with which the most elaborate of Chippendale's models are mere apprentice work. A comparison of these two chairs with the arm and single chaiis shown in Figs. 200 and 201 will illustrate the point very well. The central balusters of both these latter are united to the top rail by the Prince of Wales' feathers, a very favourite motif with Hepplewhite, and one which he was careful to...
MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE CHEST OF DRAWERS made for provincial ft n ins hich x ft nS
A mahogany writing Table vend Back and front vend all over. The top and flat part, of steps banded with satinwood and double strung round. Edge of tops, upright part of steps, partitions of all the small drawers and doors banded with rosewood and white strings. The outer and inner ends of steps banded with rosewood and white strings, say cast and in two pannels, large drawer banded with rosewood white strings the back banded and white strings in 3 square pannels and 3 hollow cornered ones...
Beech Gilded Chair
In the possession of J. D. Phillips, Esq. 3 ft. 2 ins. from floor to top of back. I ft. 11J ins. across front of seat. 1 ft. 6i ins. depth of seat. unusual feature in these hoop-back chairs. Fig. 21S has a typical Hepplewhite central splat, stump-tenoned into the curved top rail and the back framing of the seat. The legs are square-tapered, finishing in pointed moulded toes. The moulded pediment at the base of the splats is missing. Figs. 219 and 220 are described as cabriole chairs in the...
Designers Of The Eighteenth Century
LAXGLEY, BATTY, Designer. Published Practical Geometry, 1726 New Principles of Gardening, 1728- Sure Guide to Builders, 1J2. Young Builder's Rudiments, 1734 Ancient Masonry, 1736 Designs for a Bridge at Westminster, 1736 Builders' Com-plcal Assistant, 1738 Treasury of Designs, 1740 Builder's Bench-mate, 1740 Builders' Director, 17 17. LAXGLEY, BATTY amp THOMAS. Published Ancient Architecture, 1742 Builder's Treasury of Designs, 1745 Gothic Architecture Improved, 1747. LEON1, G., Architect, d....
Mahogany Corner Chair
2 ft. 9i ins. high. 1 ft. Ill ins. total width of seat. Seat, I ft. 10 ins. x i ft. 6 ins. of the Edict of Nantes, with which this book commenced. The accession of William the Third, the warfare between the rival East India Companies of England and Holland, the introduction of the Brunswick dynasty from Hanover, and the rise of Robert Adam, are further instances of radical changes in the development of English furniture arising from apparently trivial causes. The event, however, which served to...
Mahogany Vase Stand
In the possession of Robert Christie, Ksq. 4 ft. J ins. high . S ins. diameter of top. 3 ft io ins. high , i ft. I in. diameter of top. There is much, however, in the early work of Robert Adam to be commended, but it was essentially a style demanding metal, stone, or marble as the materials to be employed. This is probably the reason why a good deal of the really successful Adam furniture is gilded or painted in white or cream, wheie in the first the effect of metal, and in the second that of...
MAHOGANY CHAIR Ajz
3 ft. 1 in. from floor to top of back. 1 ft. 10 ins. across front of seat. 1 ft. Si ins. depth of seat. 1 ft. 5 ins. height of seat. Oval back 2oi ins. x 17 ins. Date about 1785. proficiency seems to have been rapidly attained in this laying of cross-cut veneers on shaped surfaces with the veneering hammer. The upper part of this table is fitted with two cupboards each with a central shelf and three drawers, and with an open space in the centre, divided laterally with a shelf for books or...
Painted Wood Gimneypiege
6 ft. 3 ins. length of shelf. 5 ft. I in. total height. Date ahout 1745-50. of the earlier Georgian period will be remarked, and the general proportions of the ornament are almost as delicate as in the earlier work of Adam. It was the models of this type which were obviously adopted for much of the work at Sion, between 1758 and 1763. The first sketch selected for illustration is a design for a chimney-piece for the drawing-room there, and is dated 1762. It lacks the precision of nearly all his...
MAHOGANY ARM CHAIR Bfe
In the possession of W. Clare Lees, Esq. 3 ft. o ins. from floor to top of back. I ft. S ins. across front of seat. I ft. 6 ins. depth of seat. 3 ft. 2 ins. from floor to top of back. I ft. 9 ins. across fiont of seat. I ft. 7 ins. depth of seat. Date about 1775. Adelphi, such as, for example, the peculiar sweep of the oval back, the fluting of the rails, and the turning and carving of the legs which are all suggestive of the Nostell and Harewood period of Robert Adam. The general design,...
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Fig. 47 is one of two designs made for the Great Room at Bowood in 1763, the sketches differing only in unimportant details, although each is carefully finished. In this drawing we have the Adam style fully developed, many of the details being familiar to students of the exteriors and interiors of the Adelphi buildings. A strong magnifying-glass is necessary to note the careful draughtsmanship of this sketch, especially in the decoration of the shelf-mouldings and those around the opening. Even...
Stained Sycamore Table With Marqueterie Top 1
5 ft. O ins. wide X 2 ft. 3 ins. deep x 2 ft. 9 ins. high. by Adam, and lie also assisted Pergolesi in the preparation of the designs for his book. Both were equally indebted to Bartolozzi foi the fidelity and spirit of his engravings. Pergolesi must have been invaluable to Robert Adam indeed, it is doubtful whether the really chaiacteristic Adam detail in the original drawings in the Soane Museum be not the work of the former it is certain that the degree of skill displayed varies considerably...
List Of Woods Used In English Furniture Of The Eighteenth Century
ACACIA. The wood usually designated by this name differs materially from the true Acacia, a genus of plants allied to the Mimosa , one of the leading divisions of the great Leguminous order. The English Acacia is properly the Robinia pseudo-Acacia, a papilionaceous tree originally brought from North America. The wood, which is little used in eighteenth century cabinet work other than for friezing or inlaying, is dull yellow in colour, with brown markings. It is generally found on bandings of...
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LIST OF NOTED CRAFTSMEN, ARCHITECTS AND DAM, JAMES. Architect, d. 1794. See Ropf.rt Adam. ADAfl, ROBERT, Architect, b. 17 28, d. 1792. Travelled in France 1754, Italy 1755, visited Rome in 1756. Explored ruins of Diocletian s Palace in 1757. Published the Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dahnatia, 71 engravings by Bartolozzi, folio, 1764, 3 10s. Architect to the Km. 1762. Member for borough of Kinross 1768. 1 ublished the IJ iWcs Architecture of Robert and James...
A Mahogany Writing Table
June 7. 25 feet of f mahogany line veind venr satin and rose 2 ft. of 1 mahogany birching venr on one side and plain venr on the other, bands and strings 5 ft of 1 mahogany and venr. bands and strings . 5 ft. of 2 Deal and mahogany venr .... ft. of 1 mahogany in the legs and strings 15 Locks and ivory escutcheons ..... Making by William Beckett. Time as in petty ledger . The Cost of the Caileton House Writing Table Fig. 376 as made by Gi lows in 1796. From the The Cost of the Caileton House...