Furniture

Dealers across the country offer an array of British antique furniture. From vernacular to formal pieces, here is a selection of what can be found.

Spotlight on a selection of auction lots made using unusual or exotic materials

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Italian-born sculptor was a founding figure in the first wave of Modernism via São Paolo

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Among the most popular lots in the Guinevere: 60 Years on the King’s Road sale was this rare Italian marquetery, vellum and bronze sideboard.

Jeroen Markies is a specialist in all things Art Deco, offering a range of furniture, sculpture, glass and lighting.

The Epstein family produced some of Britain’s leading examples of Art Deco furniture.

Although the mid-week sales at US auction house Stair Galleries typically focus on affordable property, there are some exceptions.

Classic examples of distinctive porcelain take four-figure sums in Gloucestershire

Furniture attributable to Gillows demonstrates demand for desirable pieces

The 40 trays of British butterflies in this handsome mahogany four-section cabinet by JJ Hill & Son of London were collected by Geoffrey Alfred Cole.

Vendor finds glass marbles are worth more than expected as they make surprise four-figure sums in Bury St Edmunds

A 14th or 15th century Persian mirror that emerged at auction in Lincolnshire took a five-figure sum.

English architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-74) was no stranger to large decorative projects when he was hired to design the furniture and interiors for No 16 Carlton House Terrace in St James’s.

A musical ‘captain’s desk’ davenport sold for £9500 at Tennants’ (22% buyer’s premium) Scientific and Musical Instruments sale in Leyburn on May 17.

Pictured here are examples of Georgian silverware coming up in two different auctions that are being staged in Los Angeles in June.

Two examples of classic early Georgian mahogany proved to be in demand at Artvisory (26% buyer’s premium) of South Yarra, Victoria.

The 33 pieces of ‘Mouseman’ furniture on offer at Carlisle auction house Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) all came from a Cumbrian Georgian country house where they had been since at least before 1950.