Anthony Short Antiques - Fine English Period Antiques and Works of Art
 


   ABOUT ANTIQUES – A brief history

 Henry VIII

1509-1547

TUDOR PERIOD
Gothic
Ecclesiastical
Renaissance Design

OAK
Fruit woods-Beech-Ash-Elm for country furniture

Edward VI

1547-1553

Mary I

1553-1558

Elizabeth

1558-1603

ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
Renaissance

Low relief carving-some paint & guilding inlay

James I

1603-1625

STUART PERIOD
Jacobean
Renaissance Classicism
Dutch Influence

using fruit woods-beech-ash-holly-sycamore-bone-ivory-mother of pearl

Charles I

1625-1649

Commonwealth

1649-1660

Puritan style

Tapestry manufacturey

Restoration

1660

CAROLEAN PERIOD
Restoration Period
1ste Chinoiserie
Spanish Influence
Netherlands

WALNUT
cane for seats & backs of chairs-veneer parquetry-oysterwood-laburnum-box holly-floral marquetry using

Charles II

1649-1685

James II

1685-1689

Hugenot Influence

holly woods-burr walnut-ebony

William III & Mary

1689-1702

Dutch Influence

Carving lime & pine for gesso & guilding-silvering-oriental english lacquer

Anne

1702-1714

Baroque

Arebesque “seaweed” marquetry using box or holly & walnut

George I

1714-1727

GEORGIAN PERIOD
Palladian Revival
Baroque
Rococo
Gothic
2nd Chinoiserie

solid walnut

George II

1727-1760

MAHOGANY
Jamaican-Cuban

George III

1760-1820

CLASSICAL REVIVAL
French taste
REGENCY PERIOD
Graeco Roman
Neo-Classical
Empire-Trafalgar
3rd Chinoiserie
Egyptian
Old French-Gothic
Early English Revival

 

Honduras
Painted furniture
satinwood-kingwood etc.

 

exotic woods for veneers
marquetry revival

Gilding-Lacquers & Buhl

Regency

1811-1820

George IV

1820-1830

William IV

1830-1837

VICTORIAN PERIOD
Gothic-Rustic
Modern English-Art Nouveau-
Japanese

 

Victoria

1837-1901

Edward VII

1901-1910

EDWARDIAN PERIOD
Queen Anne, Sheraton and Chippendale Style Reproductions