English Chippendale Style Desk Mahogany - United Kingdom XIX Century

Code :  ANTASC0139345

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English Chippendale Style Desk Mahogany - United Kingdom XIX Century

Code :  ANTASC0139345

not available

English Chippendale Style Desk Mahogany - United Kingdom XIX Century

Features

Style:  In the style of Chippendale

Age:  19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Origin:  England

Main essence:  Mahogany Oak

Description

English writing desk in Chippendale style, supported by wavy legs carved in the upper part with phytomorphic motifs and ending in “claw and ball” feet. With a demi-moons shape, it has three drawers in the lower band, the top with carved edge has a sliding shelf with Moroccan insert. It rests a backsplash with side drawers and in the center two doors and secret masked as a fake bookcase. In mahogany, the interior is in oak.

Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and resumption of polishing.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 98
Width: 95
Depth: 54

Additional Information

Style: In the style of Chippendale

Predominant style in English furniture in the second half of the eighteenth century.
The Chippendale style is named after Thomas Chippendale, a famous English furniture manufacturer of the 1700s.
He began by designing Rococo-style furniture with the addition, from time to time, of oriental decorations and finally furniture with a neoclassical taste.
Its production concerns decidedly expensive and elaborate furniture but also common and, above all, cheap ones.
This style is, chronologically, followed by Art-Decò and Liberty.

Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Main essence:

Mahogany

It is one of the most precious and sought-after woods in cabinet making. It was discovered in Central America around 1600 and began to be imported to England in the 1700s. Much appreciated for its hardness and indestructibility, it became widespread following the blocking of walnut exports from France in 1720 and the consequent elimination of English import duties on mahogany from the colonies in America and India. The most valuable version comes from Cuba, but it became very expensive. At the end of the 18th century it began to be used also in France in Louis XVI, Directory and Empire furniture, its diffusion declined starting from when Napoleon, in 1810, forbade its import. It was generally used in the manufacture of elegant furniture, due to its characteristics and beautiful grain.

Oak

Under the name of oak or oak various types of woods derived from plants of the genus quercus are grouped. They are always resistant, hard and compact woods. Oak is lighter than oak, both are used for more rustic furniture or for the interiors of French and English antique furniture. In other processes it was gradually replaced by the advent of exotic woods considered more valuable since the 18th century.
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