19th Century Sideboards, Cellarets, Tambour Secretary, Regency Side Cabinet, Desks, Worktables. New Trends.

NEW DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE EARLY 19TH century, many
different forms of furniture were developed for specific purposes. Previously; furniture was placed against the wall and had to serve multiple functions, but this had gradually changed through the 18th century and, by the early years of the next century, more specialized pieces were made. The same period saw the rise of novel patent furniture. Thomas Morgan and Joseph Sanders of London specialized in the “Patent Sofa-Bed & Chair-Bed”. They also made a celebrated type of armchair that hinged over to form library steps.
Not only were new forms of furniture developed, but old types were revitalized after taking forms derived from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. For example, a cellaret, or wine cooler — an 18th-century invention — might be reconfigured in the form of an ancient sarcophagus.
New types of furniture were made for the dining room. The sideboard was still a relatively new invention. Often of rectangular form with a bowed front, it usually had two compartments separated by a drawer.
These might contain shelves or even a cellaret drawer. They frequently had a brass railing at the back, although they are now usually missing. British
sideboards are generally made of mahogany with brass or ebonized stringing. Side cabinets and chiffoniers, both developments of the commode, were also new. They often had a pair of doors with brass grilles backed with pleated silk.
The cheval mirror, or Psyche glass, was a new piece of bedroom furniture. It consisted of a large single mirror held within a plain frame on a pivot, through which it was attached to the uprights of its stand. This was generally set on splayed legs with casters, so that it could be moved around easily.
Other new types of furniture, such as campaign furniture, reflected the military turbulence of the period. Campaign furniture was specially designed to be portable and easy to dismantle (sec pp.280-81).
In similar vein, the chaise a l’officier (officer’s chair) was made in France. it had arm supports, but lacked elbow rests, to enable a man wearing a sword to sit down with relative ease.

AMERICAN D-SHAPED SIDEBOARD
The rectangular top of this satinwood and figured maple sideboard has a bowed front above a conforming case with an arrangement of drawers and cupboard doors. The reeded legs have ringed cuffs.
1800-05.
Each of the drawers and cupboard doors has banded and satinwood-inlaid borders.

ENGLISH CELLARET
This Sheraton mahogany, arched-top cellaret -as a domed lid above a rectilinear case with central oval panels and geometric inlay, set on ,cpe-twist legs. c.1800.
AMERICAN TAMBOUR SECRETARY
This desk has a rectangular upper section with tambour doors that open to reveal a fitted interior. The lower section has two long drawers raised on square-section legs with tapering feet. c.1795.
ENGLISH REGENCY SIDE CABINET
–e shaped top of this parcel-gilt rosewood side :abinet is outlined with satinwood stringing. The frieze beneath contains five drawers, each
with lion’s-mask ring handles. The cupboards below have front grilles, and there is a centre shelf. The cabinet has gilt-wood lion’s-paw feet. c.1805.
AMERICAN KLISMOS CHAIR
This mahogany chair has a curved, rectangular top rail with scroll carving, and a shaped, carved back rail. The seat is supported on sabre legs. c.1815.

REGENCY WATERFALL BOOKCASES
AMERICAN WORKTABLE
ENGLISH DAVENPORT DESK
Each mahogany bookcase has a three-quarter gallery above four graduated shelves and a single drawer with ivory handles. The cases have brass carrying handles at the sides.
This Classical mahogany astragal-end worktable has various compartments. It sits on a reeded urn pedestal on four splayed, carved legs, which end in brass feet and casters.
The hinged top of this pollard oak desk has a three-quarter spindle gallery enclosing two real and false drawers, flanked by a pen drawer and slides above four side drawers.

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