We are a family business with a shop on Haworth Main Street in West Yorkshire. We specialise in early English Oak and Walnut with the emphasis on quality, originality, colour and surface.
Christian Holmes is the 4th generation of the family to deal in Antique furniture
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Fine 18th Century Mahogany Chippendale Chest of Drawers
This is a fine and rare 18th Century antique mahogany chest of drawers in the manner of Thomas Chippendale. Having outstanding colour and patina, in the most wonderful original condition and retaining the original decorated gilt brass Rococo handles and shaped ogee bracket feet. The canted corners fitted with a blind fretwork thats amongst the finest we've seen. The drawer linings having finely cut dovetails are remarkably clean, original and made in oak.
A beautiful chest of drawers and a real masterpiece piece of cabinet work from the pinnacle of the English furniture making tradition.
measurements
Height:
81 cm
Width:
94 cm
Depth:
48 cm
measurements
declaration
Holmes Antiques has clarified that the Fine 18th Century Mahogany Chippendale Chest of Drawers (LA453092) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1760