Showing posts with label baroque worries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baroque worries. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

One congratulates the groom...



and wishes the bride good luck. The bride in this instance is Emily Evans Eerdmans. And my gift to the couple would be a pair of Black-necked Swans.



Saint-Saens - Le Cygne

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Vanity



A late Edwardian mahogany and inlaid bowfront dressing table, on square tapered supports.




A Louis-Philippe mahogany, marble and gilt metal mounted dressing table, circa 1840, with oval mirror held within stylised swan supports, above a marble top with one drawer, on scrolling downswept supports on a plinth base with paw feet.




A George III mahogany bow-fronted dressing table, the top with a moulded edge, on lozenge sectioned legs.




A George V mahogany inlaid dressing table with glazed top, the fitted interior with silver gilt bottles and ivory manicure accessories, London 1910.




An early 19th century rectangular mahogany dressing table mirror with scroll brackets, pulvinated frieze drawers and turned feet.


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