Mahogany Adams Style Dressing Table / Vanity. With slide up mirror and several storage compartments. Red, white and green floral design around outside edges & corners. Good condition. 30”H, 23”W, 18”D. * A dressing table is also called Toilet Table, a table used for the toilet. The term originally was applied in the 17th century to small tables with two or three drawers. It soon became common practice to conceal the fittings of the dressing table when they were not in use, and great ingenuity... Click for details

Oriental Black Lacquered Chinoiserie Sideboard, with gold design on front and side. 4 doors, one interior shelf half way up. 2 pull out drawers above. Decorative marble style top. 35"H, 57"W, 17"D. Chinoiserie style is a 17th- and 18th-century Western style of interior design, furniture, pottery, textiles, and garden design that represents fanciful European interpretations of Chinese styles. In the first decades of the 17th century, English and Italian and, later, other craftsmen began to draw f... Click for details

Tufted Leather Loveseat. Sturdy walnut frame with cabriole legs. Reclined back (see detail photographs). Dark, tufted moisturized leather. Very good condition. 46”W, 34”H. $3450 each. A brief background of the love seat - wide chair capable of, if not necessarily designed for, accommodating two people, whose intentions are implied in the name. The makers of early examples, in the late 17th and the 18th centuries, probably were not motivated by the amorous considerations with which later generati... Click for details

Beautiful French Settee with new tufted, floral designed silk upholstery. Strong walnut frame. Very comfortable. Excellent condition. Ask for about our general discounts and our courtesy to the interior design trade. 38”H, 90”W, 32”D. A settee, also called a sofa, is an upholstered seat with back and arms (sometimes upholstered), designed for two or more people in a sitting or reclining position. The earliest surviving types, dating back to the 17th century in Europe, have sides that let down fo... Click for details

Large Spanish Walnut Table with decorative rod iron. Designed carving on exterior and interior of end legs. Probably made in past few decades. Very nice. 108”L, 39.5”W, 30”H. Ask about our net prices to the public and designers. In general, tables can be divided into fixed and mechanical types. The fixed table, consisting of a square or round top supported by one or more legs, is the least complicated from the viewpoint of craftsmanship. It is a form that requires wood of thick dimensions in ord... Click for details

An Italian Fruitwood Serpentine Front Commode, 18th c., with three graduated long drawers retaining pierced batwing brasses, a scalloped skirt and cabriole legs, probably apple wood or pear wood in a dark finish. 34.5”H, 49”W, 23”D. A definition of serpentine: Named in allusion to its resemblance to a snake's skin, serpentine is usually grayish, white, or green but may be yellow (chrysotile) or green-blue (antigorite); the green colour is due to iron replacing magnesium. Scalloped: One of a se... Click for details

Pair of Unique 19th Century Italian Baroque Style Decorated and Gilt Pastiglia Commodes. Early to mid 19th century (possibly even 18th century, given age on drawers), each with rectangular top with incised decoration and gadrooned edge over three drawers painted with various biblical scenes; the sides with palmette and pendant floral relief decoration; raised on satyr mask feet. This pair of fine Italian antique furniture is 39”H, 22”W, 15.5”D. History of the Baroque tradition: era in the hist... Click for details

A Large Louis Philippe Mahogany Gueridon, c 1830-1845, the circular top above a narrow frieze raised on faceted and bulbous stem, he hexagonal plinth joined by scrolled ogee molded legs. 30.5”H, diameter 50.5”. Some of the finest examples of gueridons were carved by Andrea Brustolon and survive in the Ca' Rezzonico in Venice. The name was also given to small 18th-century and early 19th-century French tables of various designs, particularly Neoclassical. A brief history of Louis Philippe: bor... Click for details

Italian Silver Gilded Pedestal with 54” Glass Top Table. Very thick, beveled piece of heavy glass. The significance of the pedestal - in Classical architecture, support or base for a column, statue, vase, or obelisk. Such a pedestal may be square, octagonal, or circular. The name is also given to the vertical members that divide the sections of a balustrade. A single pedestal may also support a group of columns, or colonnade. A pedestal is divided into three parts, from bottom to top: the plint... Click for details

Early 19th Century Italian Inlaid Marble Top Desk. Gold gilding on cabriole legs and perimeter of desk. Black marble inlay. Large drawer with key. Excellent condition. This Italian antique desk measures 32”H, 59”W, 31.5”D. Very unique desk. A further description of Italian antique furniture: From the beginning of the Renaissance in the early 15th century, there were changes in furniture forms that were to spread over Europe. The growth of a wealthy and powerful bourgeoisie caused the building o... Click for details

Pair of Unique Italian Renaissance style Slipper Chairs, recently restored. Semi-antique/ turn of the century. Newly Upholstered in red and green striped fabric. Refer to detail photographs. They are deceivingly very comfortable. 2 pair available. 31”H, 21”H at seat, 22”W. What is Renaissance style? For classical antiquity and, therefore, for the Renaissance, the basic element of architectural design was the order, which was a system of traditional architectural units. During the Renaissance fiv... Click for details

An Antique Italian Wrought Iron Savanarola Chair, 19th century. The back surmounted by ornate pierced finials, the saddle seat containing a loose cushion, the arms cresting in knopped brass finials, the legs joined by stretchers. 43”H. Savonarola was an Italian Christian preacher, reformer, and martyr, renowned for his clash with tyrannical rulers and a corrupt clergy. After the overthrow of the Medici in 1494, Savonarola was the sole leader of Florence, setting up a democratic republic. His ch... Click for details