The Collection: Furniture
Chest on StandAn imposing floral marquetry chest,c.1700, standing on barley-twist legs, with a fall-front writing top, meant to be used whilst standing up.
Category: Furniture
Double Dome Cabinet As seen on BBC’s Flog It. A double dome cabinet, walnut (veneer); oak; pine (carcass); parcel-gilt brass, English, circa 1715
Category: Furniture
Dressing BureauA rare combination piece,c.1735, with pivoting dressing glass set in a mahogany frame decorated with egg and dart mouldings.
Category: Furniture
Dumb WaiterAn important two-tier waiter with revolving octagonal tiers.
Category: Furniture
Hall ChairAn important walnut hall chair,c.1715, with a carved and waisted splat decorated with a fish scale pattern that takes its inspiration from imported Chinese ceramics and furniture.
Category: Furniture
Jacobean Buffet c.1610 This robust court cupboard combines heavily carved supports and elements with finely inlaid parts. The centre section has some of the earliest known floral marquetry on a piece of English oak furniture.
Category: Furniture
Kitchen DresserLaden with chargers, dishes and plates used in the service of food.
Category: Furniture
SpinetA shaped spinet, probably designed for a dining room, by Manchester maker John Kirsham, dated July 17th 1769.
Category: Furniture
Square PianoA mahogany and satinwood piano made in York by Thomas Haxby, numbered 325 and dated May 1792.
Category: Furniture
Turkoman CarpetThis unusual Tekke Bokhara carpet, c.1900, with its predominantly octagonal and ghul patterns, has two male faces, inserted some time later, in the corners of one end.
Category: Furniture
Writing DeskThe mahogany desk, in Gothic style, is based on a design in Thomas Chippendale’s Director, 1755.
Category: Furniture