Maple Four-Shelf Open Bookcase
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
Australian Colonial cedar hanging shelves, mid-19th century, with three adjustable shelves and carved side supports, height 112 cm width 113 depth 21 cm. Provenance: Warwick Oakman Antiques, Hobart. Collection of George and Adisa Pompei, Sydney
A small leather inset mahogany open bookshelf, English, early 20th century. 58 cm high, 55 cm wide, 35 cm deep
South Australian colonial kitchen dresser 158 cm wide, 42 cm deep, 205 cm high
Anna Castelli for Kartell, pair of Componibili square storage Units, designed 1967, marked to underside 'Kartell, Designer Anna Castelli, Made in the USA By Beylerian LTD' (2). Height 71 cm