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Gold Gilt Belter Furniture

July 6, 2009

I recently ran across this four-piece set of John Henry Belter Rosalie chairs online and asked the owner if I could post the image here. What struck me about this set is that the crests are gold-gilt.
I have never run across this treatment on Belter furniture and so my initial reaction is that it [...]

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The Wild Side Of John Henry Belter

March 19, 2009

I hadn’t been paying attention. It took a couple years into my Victorian furniture “mindshift” for me to notice that some of the attributed John Henry Belter chairs had lions carved into the arms.  I had probably seen hundreds of photos of Belter furniture and had kept overlooking those with these rarer design variations where [...]

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Not A Belter Work/Sewing Table

February 13, 2009

I received a note from Joan Bogart about the table that was profiled in a few previous posts. It was documented in the book, “The Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival” on page 83.
Joan feels that the table is not by Belter.  In scrutinizing the photo caption, it seems certain that [...]

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Don’t Believe All That You Read, Part III

February 4, 2009

I’d like to get back to the series of posts on issues with using furniture books, catalogs, and ads as proof-positive sources for furniture maker attributions (Trade Catalogs Can Be Misleading; Don’t Believe All That You Read).
Another complicating factor is that many furniture makers were also retailers of other makers’ wares.  They augmented their personal [...]

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Victorian Transitional Sidechair – Gothic Revival Meets Rococo Revival

December 30, 2008

Sometimes in the Victorian era of furniture making, you can see the confluence of two styles in one piece simultaneously as you can see with this sidechair to the right. Both Gothic Revival (spires, arches, crockets) and Rococo Revival (serpentine & foliate seat, cabriole legs) are represented at the same time.
This Rosewood chair design [...]

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Stubby Finds a Home

October 13, 2008

Are there any independent film producers out there?  I have  a new movie title for you to produce, “Stubby Finds a Home”.  Probably more of a Disney flick than a Tom Cruise action flick.
The new owner of the cut-down Rococo table that I profiled on Rare Victorian while it was up for sale wrote to [...]

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Just Call Me Stubby

September 15, 2008

I love how the seller of this cut-down Rococo parlor table puts it in the listing:
This WAS once a magnificent Victorian rosewood center table with turtle marble top. Somewhere down the line a long time ago, some rocket scientist decided to make a coffee table out of it and cut the legs off of it. [...]

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