English Chippendale Style
Mahogany armchair, circa 1750.
Chairs in "Chinese design" showing various choices for leg deisgn from the Gentlemen and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 by Thomas Chippendale.
Mahogany china cabinet carved in Chinese taste. Circa 1760.
Mahogany armchair which closely follows a design dated 1759 in the Director for a "French chair."
China table of mahogany and mahogany veneer. Circa 1775. The serpentine top is surrounded by a pierced fretwork gallery.
English Rococo mirror design by Thomas Johnson from his Collection of Designs, 1758.
Detail showing the wall decoration of the Eating Room (now the North Hall) at Clayden House, Buckinghamshire. The rococo work was carved in wood and painted white, circa 1768 by a certain Lightfoot of whom, otherwise, nothing is known.
Mahogany press cupboard, circa 1760. Note both blind and open fretwork.
Secretary desk made by the firm Vile and Cobb, London, 1762, for Queen Charlotte's apartment in St. James Palace, London. Mahogany veneer and oak. The fretwork panels are cut from three ply mahogany. The surmounting crown is a Victorian addition.
Mahogany display cabinet designed in "Gothick taste."
Gallery of Strawberry Hill House. Designed by T. Pitt for owner Horace Walpole as part of a gothick remodelling of Walpole's house in Twickenham near London. Circa 1747.
The Chippendale Chinese Room at Badminton House. Circa 1755.
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