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Vintage Furniture Illustrations

Illustrations of classic furniture pieces, including a lowboy, cupboards, and a secretary, rendered in rich wood textures and details, capturing a historical aesthetic.

Henry Tomaszewski, Lowboy, 1937 Lowboy
Henry Tomaszewski, Lowboy, 1937 Lowboy
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Henry Tomaszewski, Lowboy, 1937 LowboyHanging Corner Cupboard. Dated: 1941. Dimensions: overall: 45.4 x 36.7 cm (17 7/8 x 14 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: none given. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry Eisman and Isidore Sovensky.Cabinet-top Desk Secretary. Dated: 1937. Dimensions: overall: 40.8 x 30.8 cm (16 1/16 x 12 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 101"x42"x23". Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ferdinand Cartier.Secretary. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.4 x 22.6 cm (11 9/16 x 8 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: Approx. 80"high; 37"wide; 23"deep. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Leon Witt.Carl Keksi, Dough Trough, c 1937 Dough TroughFred Weiss, Scrutoir or Butler's Desk, c 1936 Scrutoir or Butler's DeskCredenza. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: Overall: 58 x 125 x 25 in. (147.3 x 317.5 x 63.5 cm). Date: 1440-50.The credenza was originally a functioning sideboard intended for the preparation and serving of food, but it evolved in the late Middle Ages into a display for expensive plates and other vessels and was thus often draped in luxurious fabrics. Whereas most medieval furniture has suffered from use and climate over the centuries, this credenza is unusually well preserved. It has been attributed to the brother Lorenzo (1425-1477) and Cristoforo Canozi (ca. 1426-1491) from Lendinara, in northern Italy, and associated with their early style. The piece is decorated with a total of eight panels. The top two-thirds of each panel contains a circular form resembling a rose window, with a row of intricate lancets below; square fields, each covered with rectilinear patterns in intarsia, occupy the bottom thirds of the panels. The six panels that form the front face are divided into three paiBureau. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 35.2 x 24.6 cm (13 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 78" high x 42 1/2" wide. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Natalie Simon.Cabinet door, Anonymous, c. 1550 - c. 1600 Cabinet door of nuthout, caught in sills and styles (part of the lower half of a cupboard front). The door is, within a profiled window, decorated in flat relief with medallions surrounded by rolling work, in which Ceres and Bacchus, which are worn by a few spy -in sphinxes and which are awarded by an eagle. On the styles in relief sphinxes and swans in oval medallions; In between a white and black-charged marble plate. At the top of consoles, between which the drawer moved. France wood (plant material). walnut (hardwood). marble (rock) Cabinet door of nuthout, caught in sills and styles (part of the lower half of a cupboard front). The door is, within a profiled window, decorated in flat relief with medallions surrounded by rolling work, in which Ceres and Bacchus, which are worn by a few spy -in sphinxes and which are awarded by an eagle. On the styles in relief sphinxes and swans in oval medallions; In between a white and black-charged marbArthur Johnson, Chest, c 1938 ChestSiennica (woj. mazowieckie). Komoda dębowa na ornaty i paramenta kościelne w zakrystii kościoła poreformackego p.w. Ofiarowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny - fragment widoku z przodu w skali 1:10. Sztolcman, Władysław Roman (1873-1950), painterDesk Bell from Fire Department. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 21.6 x 29.6 cm (8 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Al Curry.Secretary, Anonymous, Wedgwood, c. 1780 - c. 1795Maker: Thomas Aldersey, British, active 1754-81, LookingGlass, Yellow-poplar, mahogany veneer, spruce, 51 × 23 1/16 in. (129.5 × 58.5cm), Crests shaped like scrolled pediments with a central plinth were introduced on English looking glassesaround 1730. Often gilt and featuring carved elements, these looking glasses took their inspiration from classical architecture. This example is similar to the earliest forms of Palladian-style lookingglasses. , Made in London, England, British, 18thcentury, FurnitureTavern Table. Dated: c. 1953. Dimensions: overall: 22.9 x 29.4 cm (9 x 11 9/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 24" high; 24" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Isadore Goldberg.Wall cabinet, Franz Xaver Fortner, 1844Carved Casing. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 44.8 x 36.3 cm (17 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hans Mangelsdorf.Mirror Stand. Dated: 1940. Dimensions: overall: 52.8 x 44 cm (20 13/16 x 17 5/16 in.) Original IAD Object: none given. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and heightening on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry Eisman.Corner cupboard, anonymous, c. 1770 - c. 1780 Corner cupboard made of oak, veneered with pink, purple, maple, satin and boxwood and other types of wood. The cabinet, which rests on two legs, has a corrugated front, crowned by a scalloped arch and closed by a straight pilaster. It is made up of an upper and upper cabinet, both with a semicircular, shifting door. The door of the upper cabinet shows three scumpled planks on the inside; That of the base cabinet has one. The inside of the cupboard and the doors is painted black and the planks at the front gold. The door of the upper cabinet is decorated with marqueterie of a medallion with fruits with a ribbon hung on a ring on which also streamers of oak leaves are hanging in the corners with rings. The ribbon is wounded with flower branches, continued as frame of the medallion. The door of the base cabinet shows a medallion with a vase hung on a strict ribbon and surrounded by flower branches. The medallions are placed on celebrated pink . Manufacturing of notes, consisting of two panel listings. These consist of a head frame, resting corinthically fluted columns placed on podestals on two overhoeks. There is a peripheral arch, worn by pilasters and filled with a shell.Close-up of a sideboard made from walnut wood, Liguria, ItalyMirror. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.1 x 22.9 cm (11 7/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 50 1/2"x 21 1/2". Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Nicholas Gorid.John W Kelleher, Shaker Bookcase, c 1937 Shaker BookcaseSide Board (Hepplewhite). Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 22.2 x 29.8 cm (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: none given. Medium: watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Nicholas Gorid.Cradle. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 41 x 46 cm (16 1/8 x 18 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 25"high at top; 17 1/2"high at foot; 43"long; 16 1/2"wide. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Leonard Battee.Shaker Chest of Drawers. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 22.7 x 27.8 cm (8 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John W. Kelleher.Chest. unknown, creatorShaker Desk. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 30.5 x 24.8 cm (12 x 9 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 43 1/2" high; 48" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John W. Kelleher.Window with intermediate threshold and two hinged windows with stained glass, stained glass window building part wood oak wood wrought iron glass lead metal, water table 8,9 sawn interchangeable forged tinned cast Window with two door hinged windows with glass-in -lood each with double hinged shutters Water lists on front and back. Extensively modified wrought-iron locks and hinges Unpainted Charlois interior Rotterdam. Archive cabinet of oak. Two through angle styles and a middle style wear four brushed doors to iron cross heses. The squares obtained by the crossing of cleats are inside drained circles gothic. Every pair of doors has two iron locks with bolts. A tap with a hole is attached to one corner style and a rotating bracket on the other. Inner forties of the original drawers with gothic majuskles. From the Domkapittel in Utrecht.Leo Drozdoff, Desk Box, c 1940 Desk BoxTray Table. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 40.6 x 45.4 cm (16 x 17 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 29"high; 21"x17" (dimens. confusing on data sheet.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Robert Cole.Box late 17th-early 18th century French, Lorraine. Box 195527Walnut chest with openwork iron applications, 15th-century Friulian manufacture, Villa San Michele, previously owned by Axel Munthe, Anacapri, Capri, Campania, Italy.LibraryBookcaseSugar Chest. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 2'4 1/2"long; 17 7/16"wide; 3'3"high. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, graphite and pen nd ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Sarah F. Williams.Cabinet ca. 1884 Charles Tisch This cabinet was a gift of its maker, Charles Tisch, to the Metropolitan Museum in 1889. In his offer of the gift, he wrote, "This piece of Furniture received the first price sic at the New Orleans Exposition 1884/85. It is a purely American production of my own manufacture and consider it worthy of a place in the Museum." While the cabinet may have been made on American soil, it borrowed design motifs from around the world. Tisch was a German immigrant cabinetmaker living in New York, and his cabinet incorporates Japanese fretwork, Eastlake-inspired spindles, Aesthetic Movement inlay patterns, and classical Ionic columns. The asymmetry of the design and the variously sized compartments recall imperial Chinese wall apparati for the display of ceramics.. Cabinet 1085Cabinet. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 35.8 x 24.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Raymond E. Noble.Panel with open -worked symmetrical ornament of acanthus vranks with flowers and putti and in the middle an eagle on flower, c. 1650 - c. 1699 Mirrored to BK-KOG-1419-A. Enkhuizen wood (plant material) Mirrored to BK-KOG-1419-A. Enkhuizen wood (plant material)ClothespressUnknown, Tilt-top Candlestand, c. 1800, inlaid mahogany and birch.Ottoman-Turkish style floral art patterns on woodArt cabinet, Anonymous, Jeremias Michael, Johann Ulrich ProbstUlrich Fischer, Cradle, c 1937 CradleShaker Tailor's Work Bench. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 27.9 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in.) Original IAD Object: 65" high; 51 1/2" wide; 19 1/2" deep. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ray Holden.Four doors with trims and one set of entre-portes ca. 1730-35 Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder German, born Belgian These doors show similarities to the decoration in the Reichenzimmer, a suite of rooms in the Residenz in Munich designed by Cuvillies, and it is thought that they may have come from the Residenz. The doors were most likely shortened at some point.. Four doors with trims and one set of entre-portes. Paintings in the manner of Ambrosius Hörmannstorfer (German, died 1781). Southern German, Munich. ca. 1730-35. Wood, painted, carved and gilded. WoodworkPanel, Framed; wood, carvedDoor and Frame, late 1400s. France, late 15th century. Oak with traces of polychromy; overall: 278.9 x 104.8 x 14 cm (109 13/16 x 41 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.).Door open on Old Fashion Phone Booth used to make calls in private - path includedMace and Bible holder ca. 1600 British. Mace and Bible holder. British. ca. 1600. Oak. Woodwork-FurnitureNutenhout panel, anonymous, c. 1550 - c. 1600 Panel made of walnut (from a cupboard), With red-colored soil and decorated with stabbed winch-shaped, symmetrical ornament, consisting of volutes and plant and animal shapes to a sculpted egg-shaped button. France wood (plant material). walnut (hardwood) Panel made of walnut (from a cupboard), With red-colored soil and decorated with stabbed winch-shaped, symmetrical ornament, consisting of volutes and plant and animal shapes to a sculpted egg-shaped button. France wood (plant material). walnut (hardwood)Looking Glass 1695-1705 London. Gessoed and gilt pine, verre ÈglomisÈ (reverse painted glass), gilding, and mirror glass .Card Table. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 22.9 x 30.4 cm (9 x 11 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Anna Aloisi.Jewel Box. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eleanor Gausser.Unknown (Albany or New York City), Looking Glass, c. 1800-1810, giltwood, eglomise, and glass.Old wood door with lion handleBARGUEÑO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.ARQUILLA ARABE. Location: CATEDRAL MUSEO DIOCESANO. Orense. SPAIN.British, Louis XIV style frame, Unknown framemaker, 2nd quarter of 18th century, Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gildingLambrizing, part of a paneling, furniture house Legrand, 1900 - 1905 Lambrizing, part of a paneling, of nuts and rosewood and various other types of wood. Netherlands walnut (hardwood). rosewood (wood). wood (plant material). spruce (wood) Lambrizing, part of a paneling, of nuts and rosewood and various other types of wood. Netherlands walnut (hardwood). rosewood (wood). wood (plant material). spruce (wood)Objects, furniture, secretary desk, Doyle mansion, Salem, 33 Summer Street , Mansions, Interiors, Desks. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives CollectionPanel from the Palace of Westminster. Culture: British. Designer: Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (British, London 1812-1852 Ramsgate). Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 28 1/2 × 11 3/4 × 11/16 in. (72.4 × 29.8 × 1.7 cm). Date: ca. 1847. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Ripple frame mid-to-late 17th century Central European. Ripple frame. Central European. mid-to-late 17th century. Pine back frame with ebonized pearwood upper moldings.. FramesBirdcage (Netherlands); painted wood, painted metal, metal wire, glassSidewall; block-printed and glazedAnonymous. Small secretary of a lady to slaughter in oak, marquetry with decoration of flowers of flowers, golden bronzes, clogged hooves (closed overview, in the room, without bottom), around 1760. Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. Shortfall, bronze gilded, chene, decor, march, furniture, flower basket, small secretary of lady, hoof roulette, Louis XV style, wood, furnitureDesk Box. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 38.4 x 45.7 cm (15 1/8 x 18 in.) Original IAD Object: 7" high; 23" long; 16 1/4" wide; lid: 25 1/4" long. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Leo Drozdoff.Piano. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.3 x 22.8 cm (11 9/16 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lorenz Rothkranz.Detail hand painted wooden benchBritish, Neoclassical, 'Wright of Derby' frame, Unknown framemaker, 4th quarter of 18th century, Wood and compo, later oil gilding and over original oil and water gildingMirror early 19th century possibly German. Mirror. possibly German. early 19th century. Walnut. Woodwork-FurnitureCupboard in the dining room c. 1535, Tucherschloss, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, EuropeDoor with attached lock plate, Anonymous, 1608 Door of wood with metal batter and lock plate. Coming from a farmhouse in Waspik. unknown wood (plant material). iron (metal) Door of wood with metal batter and lock plate. Coming from a farmhouse in Waspik. unknown wood (plant material). iron (metal)George V Vezolles, Shaker Cupboard, c 1938 Shaker CupboardArmario, 1784. Castell de Peralada.Brazier. Viceroyalty of Peru. 1600-1622. Shipwreck of the galleon 'Nuestra Senora de Atocha'. Florida Keys, Florida, United States. Silver. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Bank from the Hamburg Vorhall of the Arts Association Exhibition, Turin 1902.Cupboard, by Unknown, 1881, 19th Century, walnut wood carved. Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Santa Maria dei Miracoli church by San Celso. Front view cupboard wood herms phytomorph motifs protomes angels.Comb, 1400s. France, Gothic period, 15th century. Boxwood; overall: 11.5 x 16.1 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.).Mirror, gueridons, and table overlaid with silver plaques, 1910.Artist: Edwin FoleyTable, decorated in Chinese Chippendala style, with glass cover plate., Anonymous, c. 1890 - c. 1910 Mahoniehout table, resting on four openwork legs. The rules are also open. The table is decorated in Chinese Chippendale style and equipped with a glass cover plate .. See also: BK-16154-B. Great Britain wood (plant material). mahogany (wood). glass Mahoniehout table, resting on four openwork legs. The rules are also open. The table is decorated in Chinese Chippendale style and equipped with a glass cover plate .. See also: BK-16154-B. Great Britain wood (plant material). mahogany (wood). glassSettee. Culture: American. Dimensions: 35 1/2 x 56 x 19 1/2 in. (90.2 x 142.2 x 49.5 cm). Date: ca. 1800. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Chimney Plaque: Coat of Arms of Duc de Bethune-Charlost. France. Date: 1673-1683. Dimensions: 87 × 95.9 × 5.7 cm (34 1/4 × 37 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.). Cast in iron. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA."Chest". Dated: 1940. Dimensions: overall: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.) Original IAD Object: Approx. 18"square and 36"long. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Edith Towner.Marble strigilated sarcophagus ca. A.D. 220 Roman The sarcophagus was furnished with a lid and placed in a monumental tomb, probably in a niche or on a ledge, with its plain back against the wall. The ferocious-looking lions' heads stand out powerfully against the restrained, almost soothing effect of the strigilated panels on the front. Thisdistinctive type of decoration is restricted largely to sarcophagi made in Rome. The marble is Proconnesian, imported from northwestern Asia Minor.. Marble strigilated sarcophagus 257781North German tiled stove, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, EuropeHal Blakeley and Harry Mann Waddell, Vestment Chest, 1940 Vestment ChestThe gearbox of the rosette of the rosette In a circle; after. XIX century or 3 19th century (1700-00-00-1800-00-00);Seth Eastman at Dighton Rock; Horatio B. King (American, 1820 - 1889); July 7, 1853; Daguerreotypetop view of empty wooden box isolated on white background. 3d illustrationWilliam H Edwards, Hanging Shelf, c 1939 Hanging ShelfGordena Jackson, Cabinet, c 1937 CabinetItalian clock, from the collection of Christopher Beckett Denison, recto - handwritten, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, 825, height 194 mm, width 121 mm, maker, manufacturer, 1880 - 1885, paper, WoodburytypePress part 18th century French. Press part. French. 18th century. Gilt bronze. Metalwork-Gilt BronzeChest (Xiang). China, Late Southern Song dynasty or Yuan dynasty, about 1200-1368. Furnishings; Furniture. Black lacquer on wood core with wickerwork panelsMirror frame. Culture: Italian, Florence. Dimensions: 28 × 16 in. (71.1 × 40.6 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Vera Van Voris, Mission Bench, c 1938 Mission BenchPhoto of Moffat Ovens, Anonymous, c. 1935 - c. 1940 photograph Canada Photo: Photographic Support. Photo: Bayta Paper. Secondary Digers Drager: Textile Materials. SCHARCHIER: Paper gelatin silver printPainted table with floral decor