Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Regency

A Regency Carved Gilt-wood Wall Sconce
A Regency Mahogany Games Table Attributable to Gillows of Lancaster
A Regency Period Japanned Fire Bellows,
A Regency Period Dining Table by Gillow of Lancaster
A Pair of Regency Period Premier & Contra Partie Inlaid Cabinets
An Outstanding Nineteenth Century Chinese Lacquer Screen
A Regency Period Rosewood & Parcel-Gilt Side-Cabinet
A Unusual Pair of Regency Hall Chairs
A Regency Period Mahogany & Ebony Writing Table
An Early Regency Oval Mahogany Occasional Table
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood & Ormolu Consoles
A Regency Period Ormolu Mounted & Brass Inlaid Rosewood Sofa Table
A Pair of Regency Period Amboyna & Brass Mounted Etageres with Simulated Marble Tops
A Pair of Regency Period Mahogany Curricle Bergeres
A George III Regency Period Drinking Table
A Regency Period Brass Tea Caddy
A Regency Period Painted Tole Basket with Pierced and Gilded Decoration
A Pair of Regency Parcel-Gilt Corner Shelves
An Unusual Regency Period Mahogany Cellaret
A Regency Period Convex Mirror with Chinoiserie Decoration
A Regency Period Day-Bed
A Regency Secretaire Breakfront Bookcase
A Pair of Regency Day Beds
A Fine Regency Period Chandelier
A Pair of Regency Period Candelabra of the Finest Quality & in Outstanding Condition
A Regency Period Giltwood and Ebonised Girandole Convex Mirror
A Pair of Regency Period Cut-Glass Candelabra
An Early Regency Period Cut Glass & Ormolu Chandelier
A Regency Period Rosewood Side Cabinet
An Important Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Side Cabinets
A Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table
A Rare and Unusually Large Early 19th Century Nodding Figure of a Chinaman Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Gianelli
A Superb & Very Rare Pair of Regency Period Carved Giltwood Mirrors
A Regency Period Mahogany Extending Dining Table
A Regency Period Rosewood & Ormolu Mounted Secretaire Cabinet
A Pair of Nineteenth Century Regency Penwork Tables
A Fine and Rare PAIR of Regency Period Rosewood End-Support Tables By Gillows
A Regency Period Carved Giltwood Convex Mirror
A Regency Period Hexagonal Brass Lantern
A Regency Period Rosewood Side Cabinet
A Regency Period Rosewood Tray
A Pair of Regency Period Curricle Chairs
A Rare Regency Rosewood and Parcel-Gilt Revolving Bookstand
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Console Tables
A Rosewood and brass mounted side table by John McLean
A Pair of Regency Period Cut Glass Lustres
A Regency Period Gilt, Ebonised and Decorated Wall Sconce
A Regency Period Hall Seat Attributed to George Bullock
An Important Regency Mahogany Sideboard With a Pair of Pedestals en Suite. Attributed to George Oakley
A George III Regency Period Convex Mirror by Thomas Fentham
An Unusual Regency Verre Eglomise Mirror

REGENCY

The Regency Period made a distinctive contribution to English furniture. Previous interest in capturing the spirit of antiquity was now expressed in a detail that surpassed that of earlier decades. Thomas Sheraton's two published works, the Cabinet Dictionary of 1803 and the Cabinet-maker, Upholsterer and General Artists' Encyclopaedia, which came out in parts from 1804 to 1806, show in detail the new trend for the Regency style.

Designs appeared in Britain for the first time that incorporated lion paw feet and other exotic animals onto the ends of Grecian scroll arms. The 1798 Battle of the Nile, fought between the French and the English, led by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, was largely responsible for inspiring designs containing Egyptian elements as it established England as a Naval Supremacy in the final years of the Revolutionary Wars in France. Such designs were more archaeologically correct in following the excavated model than had been previously, inspiring furniture to be made with sphinx head finials and crocodiles supports. Nelson's increasing victories also led to furniture incorporating a number of marine elements, including anchors, cordage and dolphins.

Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table

A Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table

Height: 30.5" 77cm
Width: 22"' 56cm
Depth: 15" 38cm

The table is of outstanding quality and superb colour and patination. Its rectangular top is decorated with floral brass inlay and supported on finely modeled end-supports inlaid with the same floral brass decoration and united by a low stretcher with an upholstered foot pad to the centre. The table standing on splayed feet.

By the Regency period 'work' or sewing tables were invariably designed with end-supports, a pleated silk bag and a stretcher below. In 1803 Sheraton was writing that "cross-banding is now laid aside for the more durable work in solid brass". At the beginning of this period it might have been a simple line inlaid into the veneer but after about 1810 the inlay became more complex and imitated French Buhl-Work as in this case.

English, Circa 1810