Garbisch Furniture
Queen Anne Mahogany Porringer Top Tea Table with Candleslides
A rectangular top with shaped porringer corners above a fully scalloped skirt on all four sides and cabriole legs ending in pad feet. The stiles are mortised, tenoned, and pinned. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
27″ H x 32″L x 22″ W
Connecticut – c. 1740-1745
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The top is rectangular with a molded edge. The frame is mortised and tenoned with a projecting cyma-curved apron. The gracefully curved cabriole legs end in shoe pad feet. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
25-3/4″ H x 19-1/4″ W x 17″ D
New England – c. 1740-1760
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This table has a full mortised and tenoned frame supported by a fully turned leg with molded tenoned stretchers. The drawer is fully dovetailed with a molded edge. The three board top is positioned with batons and wood pins.The brass is sand cast. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
30″ H x 48″ L x 30″ W
Pennsylvania, Lancaster Co. – c. 1760-1765
Return to top.Queen Anne Tiger Maple Small Desk on Frame
The frame is mortised, tenoned and pegged with a repeat cyma scrolled outline leading to turned legs ending in pad feet. The case has three fully dovetailed drawers. The interior with dovetailed drawers has cyma scrolled pigeonhole terminals. The sand cast brass is hand chased with hand forged iron snipes supporting the bails. The finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
35″ H, 24 1/2″ W. with a depth of 14 !/2″
with lid open 24″
Connecticut – c. 1730-1750
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The frame is mortised, tenoned and pegged with a gracefully scrolled apron leading to cabriole legs with trifid feet. The uppercase with bold molding is fully dovetailed as are the three drawers over five. The upper three drawers contain Quaker locks which require opening from the drawer below. The drawer sides are white pine with white cedar bottoms attached by wooden pegs.The Queen Anne brass is sand cast and supported by hand threaded brass posts. There are five knurled edge escutcheon lock plates, with locks on each drawer. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
69 3/4″ H, 41″ W – with a depth of 22 1/2″
Pennsylvania, Chester County – c.1750
Return to top.A Mahantongo Valley Paint-Decorated Chest of Drawers
This late Federal chest with molded cornice under a rectangular top and four graduated drawers in poplar has a ground painted in solid green with Prussian blue and vermillion. The Germanic decorations which embellish the case are yellow, vermillion, white, black and green on baluster turned feet. A series of abstracted butterfly motifs surround the front case. A quarter fan decoration on the painted border frames out the angels and birds facing inward towards a stylized tulip which grows slowly from one thumb molded drawer onward. The cherry pulls are hand turned. Each geometric star motif on the recessed side panel features the inclusion of a segmented four-point compass star. A varnish coat protects the entire hand painted surface.
H 52″ D 21″ W 42″
c. 1835-1840
Return to top.Queen Anne Walnut Easy Chair
The fully upholstered tall canted back has arched cresting scrolled wings and upright conical outward scrolling arms. The seat has a loose cushion on cabriole legs joined by block and ring turned stretchers ending in pad feet. The square rear maple splayed leg is continuous from crest through the stretcher base The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
Secondary wood – maple
46″ H x 32″ L x 31″ W
Massachusetts – c. 1740-1760
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Queen Anne Walnut Carved Back Stool
This chair has a tall upholstered canted back above a balloon shaped seat, on frontal cabriole legs carved at the knees, with C-scrolls ending in pad feet. The rear cabriole legs are joined by a carved serpentine flat medial stretcher with molded edge and turned stretcher at the back. The brass is sand cast. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
41-1/2″ H x 20″ L x 21″W
Rhode Island – c. 1730-1750
Return to top.Queen Anne Walnut Moravian Arm Chair
The upholstered front has a canted rail with outward exposed walnut wings. The arm and seat rails are through dovetailed. The seat frame is mortised, tenoned, and pinned with cabriole legs ending in pad feet. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina.
46″ H x 261/2″ L X 27″ W
Pennsylvania – c.1740
Queen Anne Mahogany Side Chair
The scrolled crest rail with volutes is flat in back with rounded edges. The shell is carved from the solid. The serpentine butterfly back splat with carved volutes is one piece of wood. The stiles pierced at their curves are rounded in back. The bold carved balloon seat with cut out flat arch and half arches on the sides has an applied rounded rim cut from the same stock. The seat rails are through tenoned as are the carved cabriole legs which end in trifid feet, each with a central raised tongue. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina. Side Chair 41-1/2″ H x 20-3/4″W x 20″ D
Return to top.Queen Anne Mahogany Arm Chair
The scrolled crest rail with volutes is flat in back with rounded edges. The shell is carved from the solid. The serpentine butterfly back splat with carved volutes is one piece of wood. The stiles pierced at their curves are rounded in back. The arm supports, pegged to the arms, are rounded behind their shaped fronts; the arm supports rounded in the front with serpentine back edges are screwed to the side rails. The bold carved balloon seat with cut out flat arch and half arches on the sides has an applied rounded rim cut from the same stock. The seat rails are through tenoned as are the carved cabriole legs which end in trifid feet, each with a central raised tongue. The antique finish is hand applied and rubbed to achieve a rich patina. Arm Chair 42-3/4″H x 23-1/4″ W(seat) x 18″ D(seat)