Trent Antiques Furniture

Landing of General Lafayette Staffordshire Plate by James and Ralph Clews, circa 1830. This deep blue Staffordshire plate is made of white earthenwar...

This exceptional tray table was hand crafted by the renowned B. Walton Company, premier English craftsmen of paper-mâché. The sizable green tray has beautifully gilt and scalloped ri...

Chippendale tea caddy, c1770, burl veneered mahogany paneled front and sides with cross banded border raised on original ball and claw cast brass...

This exceptional papier mâché tray is highly decorated and sits on a clustered bamboo style frame. The black and gilt painted scene is of an Asian country estate with a typical stone...

English Regency brass inlaid sewing box, c1810, rosewood with original silk interior raised on gilt brass feet. The top lifts to a divided interi...

The hinged rectangular top with three oval Signed Wedgwood plaques depicting putti at various pursuits within oval paterae mounted swagged and beaded borders, opening to a morocco leather lined hinged slope enclosing a well, the upper section fitted with candlesticks and compartmentalized for inkwells, above a hinged lid the front with a spring loaded secret drawer opening to a needle or pincushion and spools of thread. This unusual work box, mounted with blue and white jasperware signed Wedgwood plaques, is English in conception. The writing box was a popular form first used in the 18th c and well into the 19th c for traveling. This type of portable desk was described by the English poet William Cowper in 1785 as 'the most elegant, the compactest, the most commodious desk in the world.' Additionally, the jasperware plaques, came from Josiah Wedgwood's factory in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Its proximity to the steel manufacturing city of Birmingham, the birthplace of Matthew Boulton, producer of decorative metalwork (including cut steel mounts) and described by his friend and fellow-industrialist, Josiah Wedgwood, as 'the first Manufacturer in England', certainly suggests an English origin and possibly his handwork. However, the polished steel mounts are also typical of furniture and objects made in Tula, Russia, where the Imperial Arms Factory was founded by Peter the Great in the early 18th c and which later became known for its decorative objects, including furniture and domestic pieces. Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, ordered the 'Frog Service...

English Regency decoupage box, early 19th century. This box was made by using the decorative finish of decoupage. The box is covered in cut-out images of...

Lake George, State of New York Platter by Enoch Wood and Sons, circa 1830. This handsome deep blue Staffordshire platter is made of white e...

This handsome gouache painting is of the Baroque Cathedral of the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Havana Cuba. In front of the cathedral are Cuban figures and a 1928 Ford...

"My Family" a watercolor by Helen A. Haselton. She was active in Chicago and the Hartford area in Connecticut, born in 1888 and died in Woodstock Valley, CT in 1989. She was an accom...