Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Memorable Pieces

An Exceptional Carved Mahogany Side Table by William Vile
An Outstanding & Highly Important Side Cabinet Attributed to S. Jamar
An Important George III Mahogany Library Table of Superb Colour & Quality
A Most Exceptional George III Mahogany Serpentine Fronted Chest on Chest
A Magnificent Carlton House Boulle-Inlaid Table Designed for George, The Prince of Wales, The Prince Regent,
A George III Parcel-Gilt and Painted Satinwood Pier Table
A Pair of George III Giltwood Armchairs By Thomas Chippendale
An Important Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Side Cabinets
A Pair of George III Blue John Cassolettes by Matthew Boulton
A George II Walnut Side Chair
A George III Sycamore, Tulipwood Rosewood and Marquetry Pembroke Table
An Outstanding Campana Vase in Blue John or Derbyshire Fluorspar
A Pair of Nineteenth Century Bronze and Ormolu Oil Lamps
A George III Chippendale Period Sidetable
A Rare Queen Anne Blue Japanned Bureau Cabinet
A George III Chippendale Period Carved Mahogany Commode
A Very Rare Pair of Cloisonné Cranes
Saved For The Nation
A George III Rolled Paperwork Box, decorated by Mary Earnshaw of Wakefield in 1795
A George III Carved Mahogany Urn Stand
A George II Period Carved Mahogany Bureau Cabinet Attributed to Giles Grendey
A George III Inlaid Occasional Table in the Manner of Pierre Langlois
A George II Period Pedestal
A Pair of George III Period Satinwood, Decorated and Parcel-Gilt Side Tables
The Spencer Perceval armchair from the Palace of Westminster
A Pierre Langlois Commode
A Pair of Robert Adam designed Giltwood Torcheres
A Rosewood and brass mounted side table by John McLean
A George III Mahogany Card Table in the Manner of Ince & Mayhew
A Jewel in the Crown of Queen Anne Furniture
An Expanding Circular Dining Table by Robert Jupe
A Fine Pair of Harewood And Inlaid Side Tables by William Gates
A Pair of Queen Anne Walnut Stools
A George II Carved Mahogany Side-table Attributed to Giles Grendey
A Very Rare Pair of Queen Anne Giltwood Border Glass Mirrors
A Regency Period Gilt, Ebonised and Decorated Wall Sconce
A Regency Period Hall Seat Attributed to George Bullock
A Pair of Georgian Dolphin 'Slab' Tables in the Manner of James Richards, after the Designs by William Kent
A George III Regency Period Convex Mirror by Thomas Fentham

The following images, taken from our archives, illustrate a small selection of pieces we have handled over the past 60 years and which have given us special pleasure and enjoyment. Either for the pieces themselves, their origins or the collections in which they have been placed.

A Detail of the Gallery

An Outstanding & Highly Important Side Cabinet Attributed to S. Jamar

Height: 42 ¾" 108cm
Length: 10' 3 ¼" 313cm
Depth: 22 ½" 57cm

This handsome Scagliola marble and ormolu enriched sideboard and its accompanying pedestals is exactly the type of work demanded by wealthy and important clients to decorate their houses. It draws its inspiration from the classical world, with numerous motifs making reference to poetry, literature and to learning, but also from France and the grandeur of Louis Quatorze's court at Versaille.

English, Circa 1810

Villa la Pagoole, Nice
By repute, Lady Kenmare, Villa la Fiorentina, Cap Ferrat.

In particular, its robust architecture corresponds to that of a pillar-fronted bookcase bearing the brand of S. Jamar, who traded as a 'French cabinet maker' in London's Wardour Street and claimed in 1818 that much of his furniture, bronze-enriched in the French manner, was 'equal to any made in Paris' (see C. Gilbert, Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996 fig. 521).

Further to this, we have discovered two cabinets, both attributed to Jamar based on the use of identifiable brass mounts found on known Jamar pieces but also incorporating the use of scagliola columns.

S. JAMAR.
Having moved to new premises in Gerard Street in 1819, he announced his role as cabinet-maker to Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland. At the same period he sent for auction in Liverpool's Lord Street a collection of 'Superb French Cabinet Furniture from his Manufactory'. His furniture must have related to that previously executed by George Bullock (d.1818) and popularised by Rudolph Ackermann's, Repository of Arts, as according to Jamar's advertisement in the September issue of the Liverpool Mercury, his sale was to include 'handsome Tables, in rosewood, mahogany & marble'.

A few years later in 1826, he advertised the opening of a fashionable furniture 'repository' in Liverpool's Gt. Charlotte Street; and claimed that his manufactures 'for taste in design & elegance in execution…can find no parallel'.