Early Victorian Furniture

19th century mahogany tray from England with a lovely kidney shape. The tray is surrounded by a hand scalloped gallery and hand cast brass handles. In the center of the tray is an in...

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

A lovely quality mid 19th Century flame mahogany chiffonier / cabinet, having a shaped and moulded carved scrolled pediment above a two shelves with oval flame mahogany back panels,...

A comfortable 19th Century English easy armchair. Neatly upholstered in brushed sage green linen fabric, with a buttoned back. Raised on turned and fluted walnut legs with original c...

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...

This is an antique book slide. An English, walnut extending novel stand, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Fantastic Victorian bo...

An open curb link charm necklace which had hung various charms, including a fire engine, motorcycle, trolley bus, doctor’s bag, dunce hat, barrel organ, an...

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...

This is an antique country house fireside bin. An English, polished brass and ebony decorative fire bucket, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Exceptional craftsmansh...

Large convex mirror in gilt wood with pearl border. Good condition with nice patina. Diameter: 100 cm.

Very fine set of mid-19th century bronze handled steel fire tools, the elaborately cast handles with foliate designs, the shaped dished shovel with oval ...

A fantastic antique Victorian satin wood writing table / desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1840-1860 period. It is of outstanding quality, with gorgeous satin...

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.

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...

Hicks Meigh ironstone armorial sauce tureens, covers and stands made for the 41st Regiment, circa 1815-1822. Dimensions: Length: 9 1/4 inches x 7 inches high The Hicks & Meigh ironstone tureens are unusually decorated with the Royal Crown with the Roman numerals "XLI" below on an Imari ground. Mark: Printed in blue with Royal Arms above Stone China. Reference: From the 41st Regiment Military Living Group The original name of the Regiment was "Colonel Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Invalids", raised in 1719 from out-pensioners of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, for garrison duty "at home". On July 1, 1751, the Regiment was numbered 41st and redesignated as The 41st Regiment of Foot (or Invalids), with service confined mainly to the Portsmouth garrison, with detachments at Plymouth and Jersey. On December 11 1787, the invalids...

Early Victorian inlaid mahogany sofa table circa 1840. Good quality early Victorian drop leaf sofa table, which opens to form a rectangular surface.   Surface with ebony inlaid bord...

Pair 19th century hand-coloured aquatint etchings depicting scenes from the “Fores’s Coaching Incidents” series. Mounted behind glass in gilt and ebonized frames, this pair were pain...

A pair of impressive Antique Victorian Solid Silver Wine Coolers with magnificent acanthus leaf handles. The Rim of the cooler and the spread foot are decorated with elegant classic...

19th Century Original Oil Painting of Nobleman. Striking piece with age appropriate wear, see condition details below. Most likely English but could be French with English frame. ...

This is a tall antique display showcase. An English, glass and stained pine taxidermy or ornament dome, dating to the early Victorian period,...

Early Victorian 19th century what not circa 1850. Good quality and a practical antique for everyday use in multiple rooms around the home. Top tier with moulded tray, followed by 2...

This is an antique decorative stick stand. An English, painted cast iron umbrella rack, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Strikingly presented stand with appealing f...

This classic Chesterfield sofa is a form rooted in 18th–19th century English design and long associated with aristocratic libraries, gentlemen’s clubs, and Victorian drawing rooms. I...

This is an antique lithography map of Coastal England. A Scottish, framed town engraving of cartographic interest, dating to the early Victorian period and later. Superb lithograph...

P080 An elegant antique early Victorian goncalo alves sewing box or jewellery box with beautifully inlaid front and hinged top enclosing new relined interior with lift up tray. This ...

Beautiful 19th Century Victorian antique silver plated tea and coffee service including a coffee pot, tea pot, cream jug and sugar bowl. Lovely engraved decoration. Good antique cond...

An early Victorian yew, elm and ash broad arm Windsor chair. Great original surface. Underside signed G.G. Barker. Likely George G. Barker & Co. importers in Wilmington, NC, circa...

And beautiful antique English cast iron fireplace. This cast iron fireplace can be placed in front of an existing fireplace or can be place...

This is an antique display table. An English, walnut intimate dining table for 2-4 people, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1840. Beauti...

This is an antique pole screen. An English, rosewood and glass embroidered fireside heat reflector, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1840. A beautiful example showcasing fine craftsmanship, rich materiality and exceptional decorative interest. Select stocks present fine grain interest and deep caramel hues Glass panel offers a clear, bright view of the embroidery within Needlepoint scene depicts birds of paradise, rich in colour and exquisite detail Screen height adjustable through 52cm, ideal for managing heat or display Brass vernier tightens securely upon the support to hold the panel in place Striking turned upstand, adorned with carved leaf detail Standing upon a trio of delightful cabriole legs, each with foliate-carved knee Distinctive gadrooned pad feet enhance the elegant silhouette A superb early Victorian pole screen...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Antique Victorian lightly restored brown leather hand dyed armchairs with oak turned bun...

lovely solid mahogany server made up of three trays from the beginning of the 19th century - England High quality shelf which has a very beautiful turning The three trays are in sol...

"Rococo Revival": Large Morley Ashworth Ironstone "India Jar" Vase, Circa 1855-62 A monumental and opulent Victorian ironstone vase and cover, produced by Morley & Ashworth (Hanley,...

A large and impressive Victorian mahogany cheval mirror, in lovely original condition. 6ft high 40" wide 29" depth You are welcome to view this item at our showroom, please phone a...

English Sailor's Woolwork of a Battleship, Circa 1865-75. The sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a second rate battleship flying the White ensign under sail. White se...

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 leathe...

PRESENTING AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION hardback copy of ‘Bibliomania or Book Madness; A Bibliographical Romance. Illustrated with Cuts’, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. New and Improve...

A heavy and substantial door knocker with a lovely ram detail entertained into the design. A great addition to the look of a new home or one that is keeping with the integrity of a p...

A charming needlepoint rug characterised by a well articulated, swirling central bouquet set against a dark olive green background. English needlepoints of this caliber represent the...

This pair of antique Sheffield plated and elaborately decorated candlesticks are unsigned, but believed to have originated from England from ap...

Beautiful Victorian hand crafted wood and veneer Canterbury rack to hold sheet music or magazines with one drawer and brass wheels.

A unique and impressive 19th Century British mahogany military chest, the top lifts up to reveal a dressing station supported on brass rods, consisting of a mirror at the centre with...

Fantastic set of large antique Victorian postal scales and weights by S.Mordan London, having a fantastic quality set of antique Victorian scales by S.Mordan London, the brass scales...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this truly sublime, finest quality, hand made in England by Orme & Son's of Manchester, London & Glasgow Est...

An English 19th century tobacco caddy of tin covered in stitched shagreen, of oblong hexagonal form with a lid surmounted by a silver whippet, retaining ...

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...

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

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely absolutely exquisite, original Sheraton, flamed mahogany, bow fronted 1859 dated chest of drawers with Lion'...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely stunning fully restored hand carved Mahogany framed, early Victorian circa 1840-1850 Ships Capta...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning and very rare original Circa 1840 English Mahogany Hunt Table with second tiered sh...

Outstanding quality unusual antique Victorian samovar having a quality Victorian Staffordshire hexagonal shaped samovar with scroll carrying handles to the sides, a lift off lid to t...

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

With a thick octagonal top with stylized leaf carved edge supported on a square tapered support with carved flower and leaves. The concave sided base with octagonal bun feet.

A smart and extremely well made antique Victorian writing table / desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1840-1860 period. This is of outstanding quality and is a ...

Beautiful antique mahogany writing table with 2 drawers on both sides. This means that the table can also be used by 2 people. Green mixed gold-edged leather top. The table is in ver...

A rare set of four 19th century mahogany hall chairs by Holland & Sons of London. The squared shield shaped backs each with a vacant recessed oval panel above solid seats, raised on ...

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 beautiful cane weaved plant stand with fruitwood leg and hexagonal shaped base. The plant stand has a beautiful circular basket, relatively large ...

19th century carved oak log box, profusely carved all over, the top having a coat of arms with dragons either side, the hinged top opening to reveal a large st...

A very rare large 19th century English Mahogany writing slope or lap desk in very good original condition. The top lid opens up to double folding flaps that retains the original vel...