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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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John Henry Belter Child’s Chair

October 8, 2008

I would like to see one of these Belter youth chairs in person. I have a Belter slipper chair and it is diminutive; I can’t imagine how tiny these chairs made for children would appear. At 27 3/4″ tall, I could almost walk by it and not notice it in the room.
Don’t be fooled by [...]

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Pair of J & JW Meeks “Stanton Hall” Sidechairs

October 1, 2008

Although picking up a pair of Meeks Stanton Hall pattern chairs seems like it could never be a bad investment, that all depends on the price of the acquisition, and with this pair, the asking price of $4,400 is above where auction activity has put these chairs.
A pair of abused chairs sold at Cowan’s for [...]

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Neo-Grec Herter Brothers or Pottier & Stymus Chairs

September 18, 2008

I don’t run across fine Neo-Grec, ebonized, Rosewood chairs like these too often. Each chair has a bronze plaque in the back splat, one of a male figure and the other of a female. There is ample ormolu throughout the chair and if I were the current owner, I would try to examine the back [...]

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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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Rosewood Rococo Revival Sofa With Carved Bird’s Nest

September 14, 2008

I have a friend who can’t pass up taking in needy animals (strays) which I can sympathize with and admire. I think she has about 11 cats by now? My mother has a more modest group of 3 stray cats in residence.
I have a similar problem – I can’t pass up taking in needy, but [...]

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