Early Victorian Furniture

Circle of William Etty RA (1787-1849) Portrait Study of a Youth Oil on canvas, framed 74 cm. high x 61.5 cm. wide / 29 x 24 ins (94 cm. x 81 cm. framed) PROVENANCE: Sotheby's London...

This antique cast spelter figural cherub lamp has no maker's marks, but is presumed to have originated from Italy in the late 19th century and in V...

Antique Jacobean Revival Style Mahogany Carved Barley Twist Single Drawer Desk with Carved Barley Twist High Back Chair A beautifully unified two-piece antique writing set, featuri...

19th century Copeland parian figure group “Go to sleep” after J Durham, published by the Art Union of London, of a girl holding a dog. Some slight damage...

Elevate your space with the timeless charm of this Vintage Silver-Plated Candlestick Holder crafted on a foundation of durable brass. The classic allure of silver-plated brass brings a touch of refinement to any setting, adding a glint of sophistication to your decor. This vintage candlestick...

19th century English embroidered centerpiece from an antique chasuble with a Sabina Fay Braxton gaufrage mat. It is her signature printed velvet, se...

A superb early Victorian ebony collector’s cabinet, of rectangular form with two cupboard doors opening to reveal four short and two long drawers lined...

Inspired by the traditional Pier mirrors of the Victorian era, Rupert Bevan has developed a collection of regal shaped mirrors intricately hand cut with a sandblasted border. Using...

These Urns flanked a covered entry to a massive hedge maze, behind a Queen Annes County 1810s Mansard Mansion. Very Finely Casted, Rare Lions Head. Mansion is Still Standing and Vir...

ecorative early 1800s antique Swedish mora clock with carved detail in a white and gold later paint finish with mora written on the clock face. Measures: 203cm. This original 1800...

Large antique 19th century Genre Portrait of a boy by listed artist Adolf Heller, (German , 1874 -1914) A beautifully executed portrait that captures the ...

A beautiful high quality Victorian walnut Sutherland table. The inlaid crossbanded top with molded sides and a pair of fall leaves. The table has a set of four bobbin-turned gate l...

A large English carved and water gilded settee of fine quality, with shell crest, scrolled corners and decorated with English roses and foliage throughout. Newly upholstered in faux ...

Unusual form with an arched rack with leaf carved base. Single drawer with wood knobs. Turned legs and casters.

“D.Bradbury for original pieces”, a book crammed with original poems, stories, tales and deaths. 117 pages beautifully penned, written between 1830 and 1849 Age related discolourati...

Painted Scripture of the Commandments on a Slate Church Wall Panel This is a charming if large and heavy piece, the panel is in solid slate, it is an original artisan piece dating...

Rare example of a highly decorative 1800s antique Swedish mora clock with stunning hand-painted detailing to the finish. This original early 1800s mora clock has a beautiful face wi...

A charming early 19th century pitch pine side table in dry original finish. Weathered three plank top on tapered legs with pegged joints. Strong and sturdy and ready to serve for a...

lovely walnut whatnot composed of 3 shelves and a drawer at the bottom walnut whatnuts are the rarest and most sought after. the walnut has a superb flame that we can find on the th...

Beautiful antique mahogany partner desk from the early Victorian era. Both sides feature 6 drawers and a small cupboard. Beautifully aged leather top with blind profiling. The rounde...

P0170 Fine quality and very elegant Victorian dressing table or piano stool in Goncalo Alves having new upholstery with cream top cover and four car...

A fine ten-light cut-glass chandelier by Perry & Co the main baluster stem with large top canopy and drop hung stem pans cascading to ten rope twist candle...

Fine Mid Victorian Mahogany Hall /serving table with Armorial shields, Shield with carved cross on back upstand, Single centre drawer, with centre shield with carved lion and Dominu...

A fabulous vintage Boho side table. A classic East Lake design with a wooden oval top. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite, very large, Circa 1840's Hand carved Mahogany, fully restored Chesterfield brown ...

Stunning early Victorian country house wardrobe with an original painted finish. The interior is fitted with a hanging rail, chest of drawers and linen trays. 1830. Code: 8636 Dime...

This is an antique needlework sampler. An English, framed embroidered panel, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1850. A charming example ...

Antique European needlepoint rug, size: 13'6" x 20'6". This early nineteenth-century Needlepoint carpet from England is a monumental achievement of European textile history, represe...

Unusual chairs actually carved wood and not papier mache. Gilt Chinoiserie decoration on a black ground. Caned seats. Cabriole legs with turned stretchers.

Decorative early 1800s antique Swedish mora clock in later turquoise paint and gold detail and fan detail on the base. Measures: 212cm. This original 1800s mora clock has a good ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this rare and highly collectable circa 1840 hand carved solid oak with marble top side or occasional table A very decorative and well made piec...

This intricate two-tier frame was created in the early to mid 19th century. Made from hand carved wood with intricate cut-outs, this extraordinary frame was then built up into the m...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

A large and grand antique Statuary marble fireplace dating to the 1850’s. Each pilaster with two full rounded and free standing Corinthian columns th...

A stunning, high-quality early Victorian period mid-19th-century carved and moulded mahogany frame upholstered armchair. It features a reclining, open, spoon-shaped back and scroll-e...

Victorian Mahogany Dressing Table swing Mirror Carved Scottish Thistle Carving Late 19th Century. The arched mirror contained in a moulded mahogany frame, supported on two Serpentine...

An Early American Stained Pine Single Drawer Side Table, Circa 1800s. Measures 20.5" in width, 19.25" in depth and 28H in height.

Pretty 19th C West Country original painted glazed dresser. 1840. Reference: 8447 Dimensions 62.5 inches (159 cms) Wide 18.5 inches (47 cms) Deep 75.5 inches (192 cms) High

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare and important fully restored C Hindley & Son’s circa 1845 English Oak & Green Leather double ...

Early 19th Century Georgian Pair of Dummy Boards. Pinewood with oil-painted fine details. Charming and scarce pieces, it took the owner a couple of years to find them. There is no ag...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver mustard pot made by Edward & John Barnard; an addition to our Victorian silver condiments collection. This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver mustard pot has a plain circular form. The body of the mustard pot is encompassed with an exceptional and impressive band of bright cut engraved interlacing decoration accented with a simplified leaf motif. The decoration to the body incorporates a contemporary bright cut engraved crest depicting an eagle rousant, with wings addorsed and inverted, collared and chained, with an unidentified charge. The upper and lower rims of this fine example of Victorian silverware are ornamented with an impressive applied bead decorated border. This mustard pot is fitted with a domed hinged hallmarked cover encircled with an exceptional interlacing eight-pointed star motif with a central floral design. The cover is surmounted with an impressive sterling silver applied leaf thumb piece. This exceptional example of antique silverware has a plain shaped handle with a scrolling thumb piece. The mustard pot retains the original removable blue glass liner accented with a star cut motif to the underside. This impressive sterling silver mustard pot was crafted by the renowned London silversmiths Edward & John Barnard. Condition This antique mustard pot...

19th Century mahogany whatnot with cellarette, the top shelf supported by elegant turned columns and having decorative turned finials on the top shelf, with bold carved decoration an...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very large hand carved Antique Victorian circa 1840-1860 oak library bookcase with ornate scholar carvings This is a very grand piece of English country...

Rectangular top with maroon leather and banded edge over a drawer raised on a trestle base with turned stretcher and carved ends. Saber legs with casters.

The rectangular black marble and pietra dura top is set above a walnut base naturalistically carved with C-scrolls, lilies and foliage on a central lily support with outswept dolphin feet. At the back are two cabriole legs headed by shells and equally ornate carving. The inlaid decoration comprises a central sunburst within a patchwork border of specimen marbles and fossils including: Madrepore, Petworth, Portoro, Brocatelle, Sicilian Jasper and ‘Duke’s Red’. The top of the base is stamped ‘Artist R. Tudsbury Edwinstow. nOTsh.’ circa 1840. Measures: Height 33in, 84cm Width 60in; 152.5 cm Depth 361/2in, 92.5 cm Provenance: Oberton Hall: “The Grecian-black marble top, with its ribbon-banded tablet and polychromed pietre dure compartment is a masterpiece of the Derbyshire Black Marble Works at Ashford and Old Royal Museum, Matlock. It was probably designed by William Adam (d.1873) who succeeded to the Works in 1831. A trade sheet illustration of the Museum featured a related table, where the Museum was noted as being ‘under the Especial Patronage of his Grace [Charles Cavendish, 6th] Duke of Devonshire/Minerals and Shells/Inlaid Tables/Mawe’s Original Royal Museum, Matlock-Bath. The finest Spar, and elegantly engraved Black Marble Ornaments, Chimneypieces etc, London Jewellery’.” Please see page 60 for further information on Ashford Marble...

A wonderful Victorian rosewood library chair in green plush, on original brass castors, in excellent overall condition.

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare Gillows Lancaster twin pedestal double sided partner desk in panelled figured oak An exceptionally rare exa...

A superb quality 19th Century rosewood cente table, the wonderfully figured, shaped and moulded edge top above a carved frieze incorporating carved floral and shell decoration, suppo...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely lightly restored hand carved Mahogany, early Victorian circa 1840 Ships Captains armchair with c...

A pair of mid 19th Century mahogany hall chairs, having circular shaped and moulded backs and centred by shield reserves, hard seats...

This is a large antique silver chest. An English, oak and cast iron bound shipping trunk, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. An exceptional, substantial piece of Victo...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this rather stunning, 1825 dated needlework sampler made during the reign of King George IV by Eliza Ann Pra...

A excellent quality early Victorian deep buttoned mahogany library chairs, lovely shape, in excellent overall condition. 41" high 25" wide 20" seat depth 17" seat height You are we...

Twelve sided dodecagon hinged top with elaborate sunburst central inlay with outer band sunburst with elm outer banding, conforming apron with carved details, on a inverted vase supp...

A stunning 19th-century mahogany partners desk by Holland & Sons. Nine drawers on one side and two cupboards on the other. The top is fitted with a newly tooled light burgundy le...

Lovely set of antique Victorian quality brass fire irons having a quality set of fire irons with circular shaped handles, consisting of a lovely shaped shovel, poker and a pair of to...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of eight original, early Victorian circa 1840, hand carved Jacobean revival dining chairs...

Architectural Wrought Iron Loggia Panel (2) amazingly large wrought iron panels featuring interior window for viewing outdoor garden areas. These pieces are perfect for an outdoor l...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely fully restored Victorian reclining chaise lounge armchair A very good looking well made and except...

A smaller-scale English mid-Victorian bookcase in exotic wood with Gothic arch profile doors. Adjustable upper shelves and single shelf in cabinet base. C. 1850.