Tarquin Bilgen Antiques Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

England, circa 1890 A late 19th century Victorian Camphorwood campaign chest of drawers in two parts, the edges bound with brass trim and the front opening with three long drawers a...

A matched pair of Empire mahogany pedestal cupboards of cylindrical form, both with green marble tops, and two shelves to the interior. One with circular plinth base and castors, one...

Turkey, circa 1750 A mid eighteenth century cypress wood trunk, inlaid with faux tortoiseshell and mother of pearl throughout. Height 58.00cm Width 101.00cm Depth 54.00cm

France, circa 1840 A fine early 19th century flame mahogany cabinet with original ormolu mounts and handles, the original Saint Laurent Grey m...

England, circa 1760. A fine mid-eighteenth century Japanned lacquer cabinet, with two doors revealing an interior fitted with eleven drawers with ring handles, all decorated with naturalistic scenes including fishermen and rural life. Retaining the original mid-eighteenth century stand, also with comparable chinoiserie decoration and X form stretcher with central pierced quatrefoil. Height 161.00 centimetres. Width 98.00 centimetres. Depth 51.00 centimetres. The art of 18th-century Japanning was a European practise that sought to imitate Japanese lacquerware and became a method of emulating the aesthetics of East Asia within the home. The term originates from the late 17th century as the opening of trade routes in the East triggered an interest in Chinese and Japanese fashions in Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. It’s popularity reflected this era of imperial ambition when the West was fascinated by the exoticism of the East and saw the rise of an orientalist attitude. During this time, Europe’s demand for lacquerware began to grow and The East India Company's importation of lacquered objects and screens created a desire for larger, more practical items with similar decorative finishes. To replicate the appearance of oriental lacquerwork, European cabinet-makers turned to John Stalker and George Parker's 1688 ‘A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing: Being a Compleat Discovery of Those Arts’. This book contained formulas for creating and applying lacquers as well as various chinoiserie illustrations for readers to copy and modify, having made a concerted effort to reference designs on Chinese porcelain and textiles. European japanning differed from traditional East Asian lacquer work which used sap from the Toxicodendron vernicifluum tree (also known as the Chinese lacquer tree...

Germany, circa 1600 and later A rare late sixteenth century South German Augsberg cabinet comprising of eleven drawers surrounding a central tabernacle fitted with a further bank of secret drawers hidden behind a drop down slide to the left. The façades decorated with elaborate stained marquetry depicting hunting scenes, various dogs, a lion and unicorn. The cabinet has later been adapted by an English collector in the early eighteenth century, fitted with figured walnut crossbanded double doors to reveal the marquetry interior, and mounted upon a walnut chest of drawers with ring pull...

England, circa 1710. An important George I secretaire bureau in finely veneered ‘mulberry wood’ attributed to Coxed & Woster, with satinwood crossbanding, rosewood mouldings and pew...

England, circa 1820 A fine early 19th century cabinet, with finely figured timber, with yellow silk panels with brass grills to the front, the interior with single shelf. Height ...

A fine George II walnut chest on chest, with original brass escutcheons and handles, the top with concave moulded cornice.

France, circa 1860 A mid nineteenth century mahogany corner cupboard, opening with two doors to the front, with inlaid marquetry beaded borders to the doors and the uprights, the up...

England, circa 1740. A fine George II walnut chest on chest, with original brass escutcheons and handles, the top with concave moulded cornice above three short and three long gradu...

France, circa 1890 A fine pair of late nineteenth century flame mahogany cabinets with six equal drawers, original brass handles and escutcheons, surmounted by black marble tops. ...

Anglo Chinese, circa 1860 A rare mid nineteenth century Anglo Chinese campaign amboyna and ebonised bookcase with glazed upper section, the doors revealing three shelves and two dra...

France, circa 1750 A mid eighteenth century bedside commode with serpentine front, opening with three drawers, retaining the original red marble top, and all supported on bracket fe...

France, c. 1820 An early 19th century Empire mahogany commode with finely chased ormolu mounts, retaining the original marble top. Height 88.50cm Width 130.00cm Depth 57.00cm

Austria, circa 1840 A rare early nineteenth century Biedermeier commode, of architectural form with finely figured book matched veneers of cherry wood to the front, opening with thr...

An early nineteenth century mahogany and kingwood parquetry commode, with grey marble top and with three drawers retaining the original handles and escutcheons, all supported on brac...

A very fine early nineteenth century mahogany chest of drawers, the top four drawers dummy with open lid, with three drawers below, the handles with fine Rococo brasswork, lined thro...

French, circa 1820 A fine early nineteenth century mahogany Empire commode, with three graduated drawers with a diamond brass inlay and rectangular lozenges of brass, retaining the ...