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Collections > Furniture
A comprehensive collection of European furniture between 100 and 400 years old, displayed in fine panelled period rooms together with furnishings from John and Josephine Bowes' homes in France.
Girandole
Part of a pair of three-branched girandoles in carved and gilded wood and gilt gesso, showing the theatrical masks of Comedy and Tragedy. Size: Height: 108 cm;... view details
Console Table
Part of console tables with carved and gilded bases, the tops of verde antico marble. The tables were part of the Ionides Collection at Buxted Park. Purchased with... view details
Chair
Part of a set of twelve chairs in carved oak in "style troubadour", with heavily sprung seats. Each chair is raised on baluster-turned legs and the arched... view details
Lantern
Pentagonal hall lantern in gilt bronze and glass. The five glass panels are serpentine, the tops arched. The gilt brass mounts on the lower edge and the cresting... view details
Wall Bracket
Part of a pair of carved and gilded pine wood brackets, gilded over a yellow ground, the shaped, three-lobed shelf of each (with a cavetto moulded underside),... view details
Bracket
Bracket in Louis XVI style in giltwood, and gilt gesso, the horseshoe shaped shelf, edged with guilloche and beading, supported on a plain gilt fillet with an angled,... view details
Bracket
Patrof a pair of brackets, of plaster painted to look like ebonised wood cast with children's heads. Each head, the bust emerging from an oval cartouche with moulded... view details
Bracket
Bracket of sawdust and glue composition, with wooden shelf, the whole painted to imitate ebonised wood. The bracket support is cast with three moustached grotesque... view details
Carved and gilded cresting in the form of a shield
Carved and gilded cresting in the form of a shield supported by two cornucopia. The cresting was heavily over-painted with gold paint in 1973. Size: Length: 105 cm. view details
Console Table
Console table, in carved and gilded wood with modern marbled top. The front scrolled legs end in fantastic caryatids, goats heads and trunks with the wings of eagles.... view details