Antique Chairs, Tables & Cabinets - Furniture from Westland London

Stock: 16667

A very fine William and Mary chest on stand, in a rare combination of burr ash and burr yew. The chest has a cross grained moulded cornice above two short and three long graduated drawers, the drawers in burr ash, crossbanded in yew. The pear drop handles are original, as are the pierced and engraved escutcheons, mounted over the original locks. The sides are grained pine, in line with furniture of this date.
The chest is mounted on its original stand fitted with three drawers, with an ogeed line to the frieze in burr elm. The cupped and turned legs and stretchers are a later replacement.

English, c.1690.

Awaiting restoration.

Notes: In the late 17th century, fine veneered furniture of this type had grown in popularity enormously. Whilst the wealthiest homes would often have had lacquered furniture, mercantile and landowning homes had chests with fine veneers. During both the reigns of William and Anne, war had impacted the economy and the mercantile class to such an extent that the market for fine furniture had dwindled enormously, so furniture of this quality is rare.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	39 3⁄8" 100 cms	61 3⁄8" 156 cms	22" 56 cms

Stock: 16711

A charming A George IV burr oak writing table, the hinged top with a blue tooled leather writing surface above a dummy drawer. The interior is fitted with the original blue satin top for letter storage, with pen holders to the sides. This is supported on turned, tapered legs. Perfect as a lamp table.

Provenance: The Estate of Jill and Michael Barrington.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	21 1⁄8" 53.5 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 16632

A fine 18th century giltwood console table. The gilded surface is wonderfully worn, with the warm red bole coming through. The frieze has low relief decoration very much aligned with the Venetian tradition, and this frames the faux marble top (later). The scrolled legs are supported by large baluster feet and united by a scrollwork stretcher embellished with bellflowers.

Northern Italian, c.1700.

The current top, painted in a green faux marble finish, can be replaced with your choice of marble top if desired, although the current top is quite charming and probably 19th century in date.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	37 13⁄16" 96 cms	30 11⁄16" 78 cms	22 3⁄8" 57 cms

Stock: 16078

A fine early Victorian bird's eye maple occasional table, with reeded and stylised tulip carved column with quatreform base, carved feet and castors. Perfect as a lamp or side table. Maker's label reads Charles Hindley & Sons.
English, c.1840.

Notes: Charles Hindley & Sons were established at 31 & 32 Berners Street, London, as carpet and rug manufacturers, later taking over the Oxford Street cabinet-makers Miles & Edwards in 1844. The company was a noted furniture-maker, receiving a Royal Warrant of Appointment and a place at the 1851 Great Exhibition.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	20 7⁄8" 53 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms	15" 38 cms

Stock: 16603

An Aesthetic Movement octagonal occasional table with an ebonised finish and a Ebony, Thuya and marquetry veneered top, raised on turned legs united by a crossover stretcher.

English, c.1870 .

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	Diameter	Height
	22" 56 cms	25 3⁄8" 64.5 cms

Stock: 16543

A wonderful fruitwood Sorrento ware centre table inlaid with fine marquetry and parquetry. The tabletop is beautifully inlaid with a central St George and the Dragon scene, from which radiates beautiful bands of parquetry, in geometric zig zag patterns and simpler bands of inlay. This is echoed on the turned stem and tripod feet.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	31 1⁄8" 79 cms

Stock: 16292

A fine and large giltwood Italian console or game table. The substantial rouge royale marble top is supported by a fluted frieze on a serpentine frame, centred by a scallop shell on snail feet over an unusual serpentine stretcher.

Italian, c.1820. Photograph before restoration.

The game table or table à gibier emerged in France and was designed as a piece of dining room furniture, intended to display game and its accompanying dishes after a hunt.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	74 1⁄8" 188.2 cms	41 5⁄8" 105.6 cms	22 11⁄16" 57.7 cms

Stock: 16517

A very fine 19th century desk very much in the manner of Gillows. This is a piece of exceptional quality, with a burr walnut veneer strung with satinwood marquetry to the top, the drawers and the pedestal. The breakfront top is inset with a tooled leather writing surface, bordered by brass beading, above a central secrétaire drawer, supported by elegant ebonised parcel-gilt pilasters and flanked by ten further locking doors. The desk alludes to the Aesthetic Movement style, but is not overtly so.

English, late 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	31 1⁄2" 80 cms	22 13⁄16" 58 cms

Stock: 16539

A large and grand 19th century Gothic Revival pedestal in oak. The panelled central stem is flanked by four slender columns at the corners, over which are mounted dainty floral rosettes.
This substantial pedestal is perfect for a large piece of statuary, or even a jardinière, and is not unlike the pedestals used for display in 19th century museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum.

English, mid-19th century.

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	Width	Height
	25 3⁄16" 64 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms

Stock: 16011

19th Century Victorian metamorphic folding library steps in beautifully quartered oak. The shaped backrest is carved with a simple roundel very much in the Arts and Crafts style, and when inverted, forms a 3 step ladder.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	16 1⁄2" 42 cms	32 11⁄16" 83 cms	15 11⁄16" 40 cms

Stock: 16558

A Regency Mahogany waterfall bookcase. Beneath the simple scrolled broken pediment, the seven graduated shelves with crossbanded edges are flanked by scalloped waterfall ends, and supported on short turned legs.

English, circa 1820.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	30" 76.2 cms	72" 183 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16511

A rare mid-19th century Italian beadwork circular wine table. The glass covered and brightly coloured geometric and foliate patterned beadwork top is executed using tiny glass and metal beads individually sewn onto a fabric backing, this is contained within a deeply moulded walnut frame, raised on a turned central column supported by three scrolled and carved legs.

Italian, circa 1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	21 7⁄8" 55.5 cms	28" 71 cms

Stock: 16509

A fine Italian centre table with a wonderful top comprising concentric bands of bookmatched burr walnut. The outer ring is exquisitely decorated with marquetry crosshatching, which frames a wide band of burr walnut veneer. This in turn, encloses the central decoration of beautifully inlaid marquetry of a foliate design, each leaf shown delicately curled. This magnificent tabletop is mounted on a turned pedestal triform base, terminating in beautifully carved scallop feet.

A very useful table, perfect as a breakfast table, or a centre table.

Italian, possibly Sorrento, circa.1860.

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	Diameter	Height
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	31 7⁄8" 81 cms

Stock: 16465

An antique Regency mahogany twin column extending table. The mahogany top with rounded external corners over a shallow beaded frieze, is supported on a pair of square tapered columns over beaded quadriform platform bases with scrolled swept out feet on castors. Each half of the table can be used independently as a side table and each is fitted with a tilt top.

We can manufacture an extra leaf from antique mahogany if required.

English, circa 1810.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	72 13⁄16" 185 cms	28 11⁄16" 72.8 cms	51 11⁄16" 131.3 cms
one half	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	28 11⁄16" 72.8 cms

Stock: 16212

An early 18th century glazed walnut vitrine cabinet on stand. The arch topped display cabinet has its original glass and slender astragals, revealing two shelves and a concealed drawer. The elegant stand of Tuscan column formed legs, are raised on solid ebony bun feet.
Dutch, c.1720 with restorations.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	46 1⁄4" 117.5 cms	79 7⁄8" 203 cms	13" 33 cms

Stock: 16191

The most charming gilt gesso mirrored hanging shelves. The arched mirror plate is beautifully adorned with ferns, convolvulus and foxgloves that are exquisitely modelled around the frame. The rods supporting the three shelves terminate in foxglove flowerheads.

The shelves embody the Victorian obsession with ferns, in a period known as the 'fern craze'; which saw a widespread fascination in identifying, collecting and cultivating the plant.

English, mid-19th century.

Near pair with stock no. 16190.

Photo before restoration.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	33 7⁄8" 86 cms	6 11⁄16" 17 cms

Stock: 16015

A superb pair of Northern Italian hall chairs in walnut, partially ebonised, inlaid with bone. Each chair has a foliate scrollwork top rail over barley twist supports which enclose beautifully inlaid panels with a number of mythological creatures shown within an arabesque border. The inlay continues below the seat and on the stretcher, which is supporting the four foliate clasped, turned legs.

Northern Italian, possibly Milan. c.1700.

Provenance: Label reads Ex Sir George Saville Lumley, Durham Castle.

Notes:
The hall chair originated in Renaissance Italy, where the 'sgabello' chair graced the entrance hallways of grand palazzi in the 16th century. They remained popular in Italy and came to England with the Grand Tour in the 18th century.

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	width	height	depth
	18 1⁄2" 47 cms	47 5⁄8" 121 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 16227

An unusual George I 'mulberry' cabinet in the manner of Coxed and Woster. The cross banded and veneered walnut doors reveal a fine fitted interior which is also beautiful veneered, including a number of hidden drawers, which are beautifully scumbled.
English, c.1710, with restorations.

Notes: It is now widely accepted that much furniture which was commonly thought to be 'mulberry' is in fact stained burr elm, walnut, maple or alder. The popularity of these veneers in the 1690-1730 period is thought to stem from its tortoiseshell like appearance. If mulberry wood is ebonised to reinforce its markings it does not take the staining effectively whereas with elm, walnut, maple and alder the porous parts of the woods retain the dark streaks giving this dramatic tortoiseshell-like appearance.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	41 1⁄4" 105 cms	61 13⁄16" 157 cms	18 1⁄8" 46 cms

Stock: 16462

A set of eight William IV barback dining chairs in deep rich mahogany, the open backs with carved foliate scroll horizontal splats, with upholstered stuffover seats, on turned inverted baluster tapered legs, decorated with stylised leaves.

English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	19 11⁄16" 50 cms	35" 89 cms

Stock: 16417

A rare William IV architect's plan table in mahogany, the top inset with gilt tooled leather above a hinged false drawer front revealing three baize lined trays, on carved bun feet and sunken castors.

English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	61" 155 cms	29 1⁄8" 74 cms	26 13⁄16" 68 cms

Stock: 14461

A small Japanese style 19th century ebonised and gilt wood sideboard with Thuya veneered panels and top. The central pull down door with a delicately carved and gilded Japanese scene of a stylised landscape of trees and birds within a Thuya wood frame, is flanked by two sets of three Thuya fronted drawers, with original brass handles and two long drawers above. In the lower half of the cabinet are a further pair of doors decorated with Japanese style foliage and birds also with original locks and brass handles.

Stamped on the top of one of the drawers, Gillow & Co 12296.

English, circa 1870.

Note, this piece is illustrated in, Wood in British Furniture-Making, by Adam Bowett, page 312, plate T4. Published by oblong creative in association with the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2012.

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	width	height	depth
	53 7⁄8" 136.8 cms	43 1⁄2" 110.4 cms	18 5⁄8" 47.2 cms

Stock: 15815

A mid 19th Century, Victorian marquetry topped table, strikingly inlaid with a variety of specimen and fruit woods within a moulded border of solid laburnum, supported on a bronzed cast iron base.

English, circa 1850.

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	Diameter	Height
	21 11⁄16" 55 cms	26" 66 cms

Stock: 16456

A set of ten fine William IV balloon back dining chairs in Rosewood with drop in upholstered seats and carved Rococo back rails, supported on turned front legs.

English, circa 1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Each	18 1⁄8" 46 cms	34 13⁄16" 88.5 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 15902

A fine late 19th century profusely carved Walnut French two tier cabinet. The three upper doors with finely carver panels are separated by pairs of slender turned columns, beneath a corbeled and paneled freeze, below the galleried cornice with central pediment. The central panels to the doors of the lower cabinet, each containing a carved shield are bordered by smaller rectangular panels with pyramids to the corners, these are flanked by a pair of turned and carved columns, below two drawers with deeply mouded fronts and brass handles, the cabinet is raised on a moulded plinth over bun feet. Both the upper and lower cabinets have Oak interiors with two Oak shelves the upper cabinet and one to the lower.

French, circa 1880.

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	width	height	depth
	57 1⁄4" 145.5 cms	81 1⁄2" 207 cms	18 1⁄4" 46.5 cms

Stock: 16424

Set of six William IV dining chairs in warm mahogany, with upholstered seats and beautifully carved backrests. We can recover in your choice of fabric.

English, c.1830.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	34 1⁄4" 87 cms	20 7⁄8" 53 cms

Stock: 16449

A finely carved Victorian armchair by Tarn & Co of Newington Causeway in walnut and boxwood. Original upholstery.

English, c.1860.

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	Width	Height
	24 3⁄8" 62 cms	33 1⁄8" 84 cms

Stock: 16169

A set of eight William IV mahogany balloon back dining chairs, with carved leaf and eagle mask detail to the back, and drop-in seats on turned tulip legs.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	17 11⁄16" 45 cms	32 1⁄4" 82 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 16400

An early 19th century Scandinavian desk chair in beech, with two layers of decoration, one an ornate wood grain and the other, a scrolling pattern in faded gold. The bobbin turned legs and stretchers are ebonised and highlighted with gold and terminate in ceramic castors.

Swedish, early 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	22 13⁄16" 58 cms	35 3⁄8" 90 cms	23 5⁄8" 60 cms

Stock: 16373

A fine early nineteenth-century French Empire period duchesse brisée armchair with accompanying footstool. This set is in the original paint with applied gilded highlights. The restrained form embraces the new Empire style that emerged shortly after the Directoire period, with a lozenge decoration on the back, a popular motif reminiscent of the the ancient Egyptian discoveries made after Napoleon conquered the country. Both the chair and the footstool are supported by elegant tapered legs.

French, c.1805.

Later upholstery in good order, a very comfortable chair with overstuffed feather cushions.

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	Width	Height	Depth
Chair	27 3⁄16" 69 cms	36 3⁄8" 92.5 cms	27 5⁄8" 70 cms
Footstool	28" 71 cms	19 11⁄16" 50 cms

Stock: 16058

A rare pair of French torchères or gueridon tables, with inset marble tops over an ormolu mounted veneered top, over a triform base supporting legs modelled as Roman style dolphins, with an ebonised finish.
A great pair of multifunctional tables, perfect for use with lamps, decorative objects or jardinières.

French, late 19th century.

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	Diameter	Height
	18 7⁄8" 48 cms	42 1⁄8" 107 cms

Stock: 16264

A fine early 18th century Queen Anne walnut cabinet on chest, in a beautifully figured walnut veneer. The top section comprises a cushion frieze, which opens to reveal a hidden chart drawer, over the cross-banded double door cabinet which opens to reveal a fully fitted interior of drawers and pigeonholes.
A waist moulding separates the two parts of the piece with an arrangement of two short over two long drawers in highly figured feather banded walnut, oak lined with brass handles.

English, c.1710 with later 18th century modifications.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	44 1⁄8" 112 cms	63 3⁄8" 161 cms	20 1⁄2" 52 cms

Stock: 16369

A very fine and rare Anglo-Indian carved oak box settle in teak, very much based on the form of an Italian cassone. The back features three magnificently carved vignettes depicting an elephant fighting a tiger amongst palm trees, a ship at sea and lastly, a group of noblemen being drawn by oxen in a fine cart. These panels are bordered by a trailing vine decoration. The subjects would suggest a southern Indian, or possibly Ceylonese origin. The sinuous scrolling arms are carved to depict a mythical creature and they frame the box seat with a hinged lid, which has an elaborately pierced front panel.

Indian, mid 19th century.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	53 1⁄8" 135 cms	38 5⁄8" 98 cms	20 1⁄8" 51 cms

Stock: 16296

A pair of walnut Art Deco side chairs, with a geometric back rail, a padded backrest and seat pad over a scalloped apron and beautifully turned legs. They would also work well as desk chairs.

Northern Italian, c.1920.

	Width	Height	Depth
	23 13⁄16" 60.5 cms	29 1⁄2" 75 cms	19 7⁄8" 50.5 cms

Stock: 16131

An Early Victorian flame Mahogany inverted breakfront chiffonier. The lower cabinet containing a single door with carved central detail and beautifully figured panel, is flanked by two pairs of substantial turned columns, beneath the plain frieze consisting of three drawers, the central door and drawer are both fitted with Bramah locks. The upper section consists of two shelves, with crossband moulded edges, supported on pairs of turned columns in the form of cannon.

English, circa 1840.

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	Width	Height	Depth
	47 3⁄16" 120 cms	57 7⁄8" 147 cms	18 7⁄8" 48 cms

Stock: 16295

An exceptionally fine late Renaissance walnut cabinet from Tuscany. The two-part cabinet comprises an upper section of three cupboards concealing double shelves, and three drawers, divided by slender pilasters. The lower section is the inverse, and is supported on ionic capital feet. It also possesses early locks, and associated key.
This cabinet is characteristic of pieces that were made for the residences of Tuscan nobles during the late-Renaissance, and exhibits regional characteristics associated with furniture made in this region. Very few pieces of this quality survive from this period.

Italian, c.1590. With restorations, commensurate with age.

Villa Cenami, Lucca.

	Width	Height	Depth
	71 3⁄8" 181.4 cms	77" 195.5 cms	22 5⁄8" 57.3 cms