1930s PAIR Weiman English Regency Mahogany & Satinwood side tables end tables
Pair of English Regency side tables, by Weiman Furniture from the 1930s .
This pair is made of Mahogany wood, featuring a banded Satinwood top, one drawer with original handle.
Drawers are clean and they slide in and out smoothly.
The top is standing over a sturdy Column and supported with three sturdy legs.
Completely restored ( Refinished Hand French polish ),very sturdy and in very good condition.
2 Chinese Chinoiserie Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar Mantel Urn Table Lamps
Pair of two antique blue and white Chinese porcelain ginger jar / urn shaped table lamps. Hand painted with a landscape showing a couple preparing to cross a small bridge, floral and leaf patterned border and a pair of bird / dove shaped handles. Wooden cap and base. Includes lucky coin shaped finial, harp, and silk shades.
A pair of small Italian giltwood commodes, Venice, mid 18th century
The unique and unprecedented bombè shape of this pair of commodes is a tribute to the mastery of wood technology that Venice developed during the Middle Ages, and which was crucial to the building of the city. The La Serenissima produced a great workshop experimenting in innovative solutions for the treatment of timber for use in the building of palazzos, shipbuilding and in the employment of furniture and decoration, transforming any limits into opportunities by pushing the material to its extreme.
The unconventional and unexpected shape and decoration of these commodes was created to reflect the light throughout the room and thereby subtly illuminate the surrounding spaces of the interiors and were often placed within an alcove or Alcova of the room. Consequently, they can be considered as the best expression of the virtuosic craftmanship of Venice, a town suspended between sky and water.
Fully gilded commodes are extremely rare and not many examples are known in literature, we can mention the following pieces:
In the Italian carved wooden and partially gilt commode (C. Santini, Mille mobili Veneti, L’arredo domestico in Veneto dal sec. XV al sec. XIX, Venezia, p. 98, fig. 125,126);
The Italian giltwood corner cabinet, Venetian, sold Sotheby’s, London 1999, from the estate of the late Giuseppe Rossi, formerly at Principe Giovanelli Collection in Venice (G. Morazzoni, Il mobile Veneziano del ‘700, Milano, 1958, tav. CCCXXXII, CCCXXXIII);
These commodes can be considered as the precursor to the Postmodern furniture designs envisioned by the renowned Italian designer Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019). They seem to share the same unexpected and vibrant innovative style (see the Alessandro Mendini and Pierantonio Volpini chest of drawers, 1978, illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition Postmodernism, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011, N. 40, p. 41).
Sèvres Porcelain Covered Vases, 19th Century, Set of 2
" Rare Pair of Sèvres Porcelain Covered Vases, 19th Century. " Pair of important covered vases in Sèvres porcelain and chased and gilded bronze, 19th century, Napoleon III period, very fine chasing and high quality decoration. h: 59cm, w: 27cm, d: 20cm.
2 Chinese Chinoiserie Blue & White Porcelain Ginger Jar Mantel Urn Table Lamps
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