Vintage English Sheraton Revival Satin Wood Open Bookcase 20th C

Regent Antiques has been trading in London for three decades. We specialise in English and Continental antique furniture, silver and porcelain. Our main markets are Europe and North America and we export worldwide.

Vintage English Sheraton Revival Satin Wood Open Bookcase 20th C. This is a beautiful antique. Bookcase, masterfully crafted in rich. With handpainted floral decoration, dating from the mid 20th Century.

This magnificent bookcase features the cornice and frieze beautifully hand painted with a bouquet of flowers and scrolling floral leafage. It has three adjustable shelves in the top, the base with two panelled doors hand painted with beautiful floral oval panels on black ground, and the doors opening to reveal spacious cupboard with central shelf. Raised on a plinth base there is no mistaking its superb quality and very grand design, which is certain to make it a talking point in your home and stand proud in whichever room you choose to display it. Complete with working lock and key.

Condition: In excellent condition having only been beautifully cleaned and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Height 216 x Width 107 x Depth 40. Height 85.0 x Width 42.1 x Depth 15.7. Satin wood is a hard and durable wood with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in. It comes from two tropical trees of the family Rutaceae.

East Indian or Ceylon satinwood is the yellowish or dark-brown heartwood of Chloroxylon swietenia. The lustrous, fine-grained, usually figured wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, veneers, and backs of brushes. West Indian satin wood, sometimes called yellow wood, is considered superior. It is the golden yellow, lustrous, even-grained wood found in the Florida Keys and the West Indies. It has long been valued for furniture.

It is also used for musical instruments, veneers, and other purposes. Satin wood is classified in the division.

Thomas Sheraton (1751 - 1806) was an English cabinetmaker and one of the leading exponents of Neoclassicism. Sheraton gave his name to a style of furniture. Characterised by a feminine refinement of late Georgian styles and became the most powerful source of inspiration behind the furniture of the late 18th century. Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers' Drawing Book.

Greatly influenced English and American design. Sheraton was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, but he became better known as an inventor, artist, mystic, and religious controversialist. Initially he wrote on theological subjects, describing himself as a mechanic, one who never had the advantage of collegiate or academical education. 1790, and his trade card gave his address as Wardour Street, Soho. Supporting himself mainly as an author, Sheraton wrote. (1791), the first part of which is devoted to somewhat naive, verbose dissertations on perspective, architecture, and geometry and the second part, on which his reputation is certainly based, is filled with plates that are admirable in draftsmanship, form, and proportion.

In 1803 Sheraton, who had been ordained a Baptist minister in 1800, published his. An Explanation of All Terms Used in the Cabinet, Chair and Upholstery Branches with Dictionary for Varnishing, Polishing and Gilding. Some of the designs in this work, venturing well into the Regency style, are markedly unconventional.

That he was a fashionable cabinetmaker is remarkable, for he was poor, his home of necessity half shop. It cannot be presumed that he was the maker of those examples even closely resembling his plates. Although Sheraton undoubtedly borrowed from other cabinetmakers, most of the plates in his early publications are supposedly his own designs. The term Sheraton has been recklessly bestowed upon vast quantities of late 18th-century painted and inlaid satinwood furniture, but, properly understood and used in a generic sense, Sheraton is an appropriate label recognizing a mastermind behind the period.

The opinion that his lack of success was caused by his assertive character is hypothetical. Take Piccadilly line to Manor House station. Go to top of escalators and turn left. Take exit 7 and walk straight on for 10 metres. Manor Warehouse is on the right.

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