Antique boxes and treen
If you can think of a typical activity from between 1650 and 1850 then the chances are that a cabinetmaker has made a box to house the necessary equipment. From tea caddies and knife boxes to work and sewing cases and fitted dressing cases, the most exquisite boxes were produced and often for travelling patrons. Every wood from partridge to satinwood and even English buhl, and brass inlaid into a ground of ebony, were used for these often extravagent gifts as was also papier mâché. Treen is a wide term used for anything made of turned wood and predominantly for domestic use, so a spinning wheel might qualify, as might a snuffer or a desk piece.
George II Walnut and Mirrored Tea Caddy
No: 10038
An extremely rare and valuable early 18th. century figured walnut and mirrored panel Tea Caddy retaining the original makers label for Antony Berrisford of Bakewell , Derbyshire to the base.
The label reads:
"Antony Berrisford, Statuary Graver and Carver, Bakewell in Derbyshire, Has always ready for sale a large
Quantity of English and Foreign Marbles, O.....n Gentlemen may have Chimney Pieces, Tables, Monuments, Gravestones, Statues, Busts, And all kind of Ornaments and Marble, Curious Crystalline Substances Done in the Best...... manner And at Reasonable Rates"
This is just the most extraordinary example of the sort of Antique Chest made during the Georgian Period explicitly to house that expensive commodity - Tea and to stop the servants from stealing it.
Circa 1740
H: 7" (17 cms) W: 11" (27 cms) D: 7½" (19 cms)
Price: £7,750 / US$ 11,703 / € 9,068
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Flax Spinning Wheel
No: 10172
A late 18th Century Oak and Inlaid Continental Flax Spinning Wheel, the 12" diameter turned spindle wheel mounted on an oak base with sycamore and ebony geometric banding and embellished with Ivory Finials.
Circa 1780
H: 34" (86 cms) W: 27" (68 cms) D: 16" (40 cms)
Price: £550 / US$ 831 / € 644
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Pair of Bellows
No: 399U
A good pair of George III period Walnut and hide fire bellows with brass nozzle and close nailing to the leather.
Circa 1780
H: 2" (5 cms) W: 22½" (57 cms) D: 9" (22 cms)
Price: £450 / US$ 680 / € 527
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Partridgewood Tea Caddy
No: 9928
A pretty George III Period Partridgewood Octagonal Tea Caddy strung with boxwood throughout and crossbanded in Tulipwood within black and white bands and retaining the original lid inside.
Note: Partridgewood (Caesalpinia Granadillo) is a member of the Brazilwood family of trees coming from South America and is so called because of the similarity of the grain to the feathers on a partridge.
Tulipwood (Dalbergia Frutescens) is the same family as Rosewood but with a yellow/pink/red stripe as opposed to the black of Rosewood.
This is the sort of Antique Chest made during the Georgian Period explicitly to house that expensive commodity - Tea and to stop the servants from stealing it.
Circa 1790
H: 5" (12 cms) W: 4¾" (12 cms) D: 4" (10 cms)
Price: £425 / US$ 642 / € 497
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Regency Ebony and Brass Inlaid Desk Piece
No: 9846
A very good Regency period Ebony and Brass Inlaid Desk Piece with the original ink bottles, stoppers, taper holder and flame snuffer. This a fine example of English "Buhl" work which copies the French models from earlier. This would certainly grace the very finest of Regency Antique Desks.
Circa 1820
H: 5" (12 cms) W: 15" (38 cms) D: 9" (22 cms)
Price: £1,750 / US$ 2,643 / € 2,047
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Regency Rosewood Shelves
No: 10340
A fine and rare set of Regency Period Table Top Rosewood Bookshelves, the scrolling top with finely carved detail above two shelves, one supported on crisply carved s-shaped scrolls with carved paterae, the lower shelf supported on turned Tuscan Columns.
Circa 1820
H: 20" (50 cms) W: 30" (76 cms) D: 8¾" (22 cms)
Price: £1,950 / US$ 2,945 / € 2,282
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Brass Bound Oak Bucket
No: 10363
A good mid 19th. Century Oak and Brass Bound Bucket of coopered construction with a brass loop carrying handle above four brass bands.
Circa 1850
H: 14" (35 cms) W: 11½" (29 cms) D: 11½" (29 cms)
Price: £325 / US$ 491 / € 380
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Mid19th. Century Travelling Roulette Wheel
No: 9852
Mid 19th Century Treen Sycamore Pocket Travelling Roulette Wheel
Circa 1860
H: 2¼" (5 cms) W: 5" (12 cms) D: 5" (12 cms)
Price: £450 / US$ 680 / € 527
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