1840s Furniture

Hussar Cavalryman on Horseback, Napoleonic Military Print, France 1809 This hand-coloured 19th-century military engraving depicts a French hussar in full mounted action, dated 1809,...

Train of Artillery and Foot Artillery, Napoleonic Military Print 1809 This finely hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts two soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte’s artillery arm: a ...

Title: Chinese Costumes – Mandarin, Tartar Lady and Musicians, c.1845 This vibrant hand-colored lithograph, titled “Asie – Chine,” comes from *Le Monde en Estampes: Types et Costume...

Infanterie de Ligne 1808, Grenadier and Voltigeur, Napoleonic Print This finely hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts two soldiers of the French line infantry in 1808, shown ...

Artillerie à Cheval, Imperial Guard Cavalry, Napoleonic Military Print, 1843 This finely hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts a mounted artilleryman of Napoleon Bonaparte’s ...

Imperial Guard Tirailleur and Voltigeur, Napoleonic Military Print, c1843 This hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts a Tirailleur and a Voltigeur of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Impe...

Imperial Guard Foot Artillery and Train, Napoleonic Military Print c1843 This finely hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts members of the Imperial Guard artillery during the ...

Napoleonic Carabinier 1805, Imperial Guard Heavy Cavalry Print Description: This original hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts a Carabinier of the French heavy cavalry durin...

Napoleonic Gendarme d’Élite, Imperial Guard Cavalry, Hand-Coloured Print This finely hand-coloured 19th-century engraving depicts a mounted Gendarme d’Élite of the Imperial Guard, o...

Napoleonic Light Infantry Officer 1795, French Military Uniform Print, 1843 This finely hand-colored 19th-century engraving depicts an officer of the French light infantry (infanter...

Title: French Heavy Cavalry 1795, Napoleonic Military Uniform Print This finely hand-colored 19th-century engraving depicts a mounted soldier of the French heavy cavalry (Grosse Cav...

French Hussar with Horse 1795, Napoleonic Era Military Uniform Print This finely hand-colored 19th-century engraving depicts a French hussar accompanied by his horse, shown in the d...

Republican General and His Guide 1795, Napoleonic Era Military Uniform Print This finely hand-colored 19th-century engraving depicts a Republican general and his guide as uniformed ...

French Line Infantry Soldier 1795, Napoleonic Uniform Print – Vernet This finely hand-colored 19th-century print depicts a soldier of the French Line Infantry (Infanterie de Ligne) ...

Napoleonic Imperial Guard Grenadiers, Officer and Soldier – French Prints Description: This fine pair of hand-colored 19th-century prints depicts members of Napoleon Bonaparte’s eli...

Napoleon Bonaparte on Horseback, L’Empereur – French Hand-Colored Print, 1843 This striking 19th-century hand-colored print depicts Napoleon Bonaparte in one of his most enduring an...

Napoleon Bonaparte, Allegorical Equestrian Monument – After Horace Vernet, 1843 This striking 19th-century historical print presents an allegorical equestrian representation of Napo...

Antique framed black and white map of seven Midwestern American states. Guide Through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisco...

Swedish and Norwegian Costumes – Peasants, Laplanders and Reindeer, c.1845 Description: This engaging hand-colored lithograph, titled “Europe – Suède, Norwège,” is drawn from Le Mon...

A Beautiful and Quite Large 19th century English Grand Tour Period Black Belgian Marble Pedestal stand Two-Handled Centerpiece/Tazza. This hand carved and hand-polished marble tazza ...

This antique mirror, crafted from rich mahogany wood, dates back to the late Empire period around the 1840s. It is a stunning example of the elegance and craftsmanship characteristi...

Antique Shell Lithographs “Unio” – Hand-Colored Plates by Sowerby, 1860s A pair of beautifully detailed 19th-century hand-colored lithographs depicting various species of freshwater...

Spanish Dancers and Regional Costumes – Gitano and Valencian Figures, c.1845 This vibrant hand-colored lithograph, titled “Europe – Espagne,” originates from the mid-19th-century Fr...

A superb quality early 19th Century mahogany breakfront bookcase, the stepped moulded cornice above four large glazed doors opening to reveal two adjustable shelves inside each secti...

Painted Swiss alp escabelle

An evocative 19th century interior painting, depicting the quiet elegance of a living room or salon, rendered with warm tones and fine detail. The composition draws the viewer into a...

TableCloth Materials: Wool and Silk Fabrics, 1847 Currently (August 2023) a book with reference to different fabrics of the time can be seen at the Met museum in new york We have spe...

Antique Print of the Capelin and Smelt – Gaimard, 1842 This finely hand-colored lithograph depicts two important northern fish species: the Capelin (Mallotus villosus), titled Le Lo...

Early Victorian Skeleton Clock by Joseph Watson & Son, Cambridge Eight day chain fusee movement with fine wheelwork set between steeple sh...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand made in England, Sheraton Revival, Library Bureau bookcase circa 1840 Please note the deli...

19th century mahogany bookcase / writing cabinet in the style of Gillows. The cabinet with a lift up lid revealing a fitted writing interior with a leather top writing slope, circa 1...

- Gorgeous pair of Victorian hall chairs - Hand carved and in mahogany, circa 1840 - Great collectors pair - Offered in great shape, ready fo...

Hallmarked in London in 1847 by Joseph Angell I & Joseph Angell II, this stylish, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Cream Jug, is modelled to resemble an Oenochoe, a key form used i...

A very important and rare Roman micromosaic plaque, circa 1840-1850. circular, "Village People" in a later giltwood frame plaque sight size 12 1/2" b...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning very rare oversized Gothic Revival circa 1840 Victorian wine cooler or planter A very nice decorative and well made piece, the Lio...

This is a 100% original painted Swedish Gustavian sofa. the seating has been restored and covered in Muslin.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare original circa 1840 Victorian Brass double bed frame with period porcelain castors Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide, it covers within the M25 only for the UK and local Europe only for international, if you would like an accurate quote, please send me your postcode and I’ll provide you with the exact price. These beds are about as rare and collectable as they come, the frame is all original, it has beautifully worked and wouldn't look out of place in a grand palace. The piece as mentioned has the original porcelain castors in place Please note this sale only includes what's pictured, there's no mattress or divan base as the new owners usually want to buy their own new Dimensions Height:- 143cm headboard, 110cm footboard, 36.5cm side rails Width:- 140cm Length:- 221cm Inside Dimensions Divan base height:- 36.5cm Width:- 140.5cm Length:- 209cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point, if you would like any additional or specific measurements please ask. Any questions please feel free to ask before you bid. This item is available for collection from our Pulborough warehouses RH20 1DF. We can have it delivered nationwide to include Scotland Wales and Ireland. Please contact me via email or my contact information...

A fine pair of antique Russian ormolu and amethyst cut-glass compotes, 19th century. This pair of navette-shaped bowls cut with lozenge pattern and flanke...

This is one of the most highly detailed marble dust or sandpaper drawings I have ever seen. The meticulously executed in details and the subtlety of the buildings in the background i...

Title: Handcolored Engraving of African and Charrúa Men, Paris 1849, from d'Orbigny's 'Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle' This rare and striking handcolored engraving, c...

Antique print titled 'Ein Maure aus Algier'. Original antique print of a Moor from Algiers. This print originates from 'Die Volker des Erdballs (..)' by H. Berghaus. Artists ...

The colored reserves painted with a floral still life, the reverse with sprays of flowers. The bases similarly painted. With molded, gilded scrollwork and "pearls". Dimensions of the...

A charming garden accent, this cast iron faux Bois bench has been radically weathered to perfection. A testament to Janes, Beebe & Co foundry, one...

Beautiful wellington chest of drawers in walnut with 7 drawers increasing in depth. In good and completely original condition. Beautiful patina. Origin: England Period: Approx. 184...

Lovely antique piano bench with internal compartment for music sheet storage. The perfect accompaniment to a beautiful piano, this piece is suitabl...

Set of American ball top polished steel and brass fire tools resting on a matching cross hatched hexagon stand, Mid-19th century. Set consist of shovel...

Heading : Tunbridge ware sewing box Date : c1840 Period : Victoria Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent Decoration : Central perspective cube patte...

The Gustavian set you described is a beautiful and rare find, reflecting the elegance and craftsmanship of the 19th-century Gustavian style. Gustavian f...

A monumental and palace size pair of green Paris porcelain vases exquisitely hand-painted with botanical still life panel on one side and lovers in a royal garden on the reverse. The...

This Italian Neoclassical white marble sculpture is signed by the Neopolitan artist Giacomo Cali. The sculpture is of Aristedes (530–468 BC), the ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Greco-Persian Wars...

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...

Anglo-Indian Solid Ebony Sofa, Circa 1830 Finely Carved and Upholstered in Natural Linen A magnificent early 19th-century Anglo-Indian sofa, crafted around 1830 in solid ebony. The ...

Imposing ovoid-shaped covered vase in gilded bronze, richly decorated on each side with a medallion enclosing a deity on his chariot in the clouds, framed by friezes and garlands, a ...

Pair delightful Italian Grand Tour bronze candlesticks In the form of male and female - left and right - Egyptian figurines Dated circa 1840 Great patina to the bronze with polychrom...

This is an antique embroidered fire screen. An English, walnut and glazed needlepoint reflector panel, dating to the early Victorian period, ci...

Handsome, period, hand carved wood frame richly embellished in cobalt blue glass and trimmed in molded, gilt bronze trim. The Bonnet style top is centered on a pierced, foliate finia...

We are delighted to offer for sale this early Victorian Military Campaign writing slope in the form of a Davenport desk circa 1840-1860 in solid mahogany I’ve only ever seen one o...

An exceptionally rare and historically significant sewing table by Jørgen Roed (1808–1888), crafted in veneered mahogany with exquisite precision and sculptural balance. The circular...

An impressive silver beer jug with high-relief, chased scenes of a stag hunt among scrolling foliage and floral designs. This substantial piece, made by a fine silversmith, has a cas...

Pair of English porcelain floral covered vases, circa 1840.