A Queen Anne style walnut display cabinet on stand, English,…
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A Queen Anne style walnut display cabinet on stand, English, late 19th century, the arched moulded top above a pair of glazed doors with cross glazing bars enclosing two shelves above three short cross-banded drawers over a shaped apron, raised on turned tapering legs joined by shaped stretchers, on bun feet. Width 71 cm. Depth 38 cm. Height 186 cm
bun feet. Similar to ball feet, though somewhat compressed or flattened in appearance. Introduced during the late 17th century, but they have been used on furniture up to the present day
turning. Any part of a piece of furniture that has been turned and shaped with chisels on a lathe. Turned sections include legs, columns, feet, finials, pedestals, stretchers, spindles etc. There have been many varieties and fashions over the centuries: baluster, melon, barley-sugar, bobbin, cotton-reel, rope-twist, and so on. Split turning implies a turned section that has been cut in half lengthwise and applied to a cabinet front as a false decorative support.
apron. A decorative wooden panel that sits underneath the top surface of a table or chair, and unites the top of the piece with the legs, running at right angles to the underside.
An apron can provide a decorative touch to an otherwise unadorned piece of furniture and at the same time provide structural support and strength. They can be carved or pierced and quite elaborate
glazing bars. Thin astragal mouldings, almost always of timber, behind which glass panes in bookcases, china cabinets, kitchen dressers, and so on are fixed. The glass is either puttied in or held by thin beads. Old hand-made glass should show imperfections, such as bubbles and ridges, when looked at obliquely against the light, something which is not found in modem factory-made glass. The joints of the glazing bars should always be neatly mitred. Where the cabinet door consists of a single piece of plate glass, over which false bars have been glued, the item should be regarded with suspicion. It may well be a modern conversion, where the panelled door of a press or wardrobe has had a glass front fitted, and the article turned into a 'bookcase'.
Queen Anne. Queen Anne (1665 – 1714) ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702 until her death in 1714.
She died without surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart, with the monarchy passing to her second cousin George I, of the House of Hanover.
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