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Antique Burr Walnut Marquetry 3 Door Sideboard Early 20th Century
$8,522.56
£6,250
€7,257.43
CA$11,743.67
A$12,909.16
CHF 6,777.25
MX$153,499.17
NOK 87,035.25
SEK 79,279.71
DKK 54,224.68
About the Item
This is a superb antique burr walnut and marquetry breakfront sideboard, Circa 1920 in date.
It features three capacious drawers above three cupboards, each fitted with a central shelf with room for all your plates, china, glassware and cutlery.
It has been crafted from burr walnut, features exquisite hand cut floral marquetry decoration with an interior that has been beautifully relined with a golden fabric.
The sideboard has been French polished by a craftman and is ready to add a touch of class to a special place in your home.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished waxed and the interior relined in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. As an antique item, the piece show signs of use commensurate with age, these minor condition issues are mentioned for accuracy and, as seen in the accompanying photographs it displays beautifully.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 105 cm x Width 218 cm x Depth 58 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 foot, 5 inches x Width 7 foot, 2 inches x Depth 1 foot, 11 inches
Walnut
Burr Walnut
Walnut is a hard, dense, tight- grained wood that polishes to a very smooth finish. It is a popular and attractive wood whose colour ranges from near white in the sapwood to a dark hew in the heartwood. When dried in a kiln, walnut wood tends to develop a dull brown colour, but when air-dried can become a rich purplish-brown. Because of its colour, hardness and grain, it is a prized furniture and carving wood. Walnut veneer was highly priced and the cost would reflect the ‘fanciness’ of the veneer – the more decorative, then the more expensive and desirable.
Burr walnut refers to the swirling figure present in nearly all walnut when cut and polished, and especially in the wood taken from the base of the tree where it joins the roots. However the true burr is a rare growth on the tree where hundreds of tiny branches have started to grow. Burr walnut produces some of the most complex and beautiful figuring you can find.
Walnut "burrs" were often used to make fabulous furniture. Veneer sliced from walnut burl is one of the most valuable and highly prized by cabinet makers and prestige car manufacturers and is also a favourite material for shotgun stocks.
Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.
The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.
Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.
Our reference: 02300a
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