Harbour Antiques: impress with high quality period furniture
We carry a wide variety of antique dining room furniture, period livingroom furniture, lighting, antique chandeliers, upholstery, grand pianos and other antique and period furnishings. Antique furniture represents excellent value for money, is extremely well constructed and will last many lifetimes. Hand crafting is something that today one would find extremely hard to duplicate, which is why antique furniture proves to be such wonderful investment. Period furniture...always in style!
This period is divided into:
George I 1714 - 1727
George II 1727 - 1760
George III 1760 - 1800
George IV (Regency) 1800 - 1830
W1Vth 1830 - 1837
Victorian 1837 - 1901
Edwardian 1901- 1910
New Additions
Listed below are some of our latest additions. Please click each
thumbnail to view details and you will be taken to further examples
of stunning antique furniture and decorative items.
Fabulous Black Gors and Kallmann of Berlin baby grand piano
£2,650
(Ref:PIA22)
click picture
for more info
Regency rosewood jewelery box with scent bottles and original
fitments.
In Georgian times dining tended
to be a rather private affair and due to this, dining tables tended
to be rather small such as Pembroke
breakfast tables or drop leaf
dining tables. During Victorian times dining was more sociable and
because of this the dining room tables were of the large, extendable
varieties leading to vast dinner parties and the dining table became
the centre of the home. Antique dining
tables could be extended by inserting leaves via a winding mechanism
or the slightly earlier pull apart versions. Many of these tables have
lasted throughout the years and they are available to buy through antique
furniture businesses, they represent excellent value for money as they
are built in such a way that the joints and superstructure are certain
to last for centuries, at Harbour Antiques we make sure that all the
joints on our tables have been thoroughly vetted prior to delivery and
clamped as necessary, the casters are all serviced to ensure that the
table can be moved with as much ease as possible, the winding mechanism
or carcass of the main body of the table is checked thoroughly to ensure
extending the table is a pleasurable experience and not a constant battle.
There are quite a number of Antique
Dining Tables available and they would look fantastic in either
period homes or indeed modern homes, we tend to favour the Victorian
oval dining table,circular breakfast
tables which usually are ideal for medium sized homes where seating
6 is normal, for larger homes the extending
Victorian dining tables are more popular and we sell tables that
can seat 8, 10, 12, 14 and sometimes more. Regency
tables are generally made of superior quality timber due to its
abundance, as time progressed timber in large leafs becomes harder to
find as trees need a long period of time to grow to their maximum girth.
Having said this we have many fine examples of antique dining tables
and generally favour walnut, mahogany and rosewood as the timber for
our selection. The majority of our tables pass through the workshop
and are often traditionally french polished, this is a very labour intensive
operation and brings a tired table back to life, we suggest purchasing
a good quality surface protector for your dining table to ensure that
those inevitable spills or accidents dont mark the surface of your table.
Georgian dining tables would never
have been french polished as this is something that became popular at
the onset of Victorian pieces. Harbour Antiques in Bideford, Devon offer
wonderful items for dining rooms including antique
sideboards, Georgian
sideboard, Victorian sideboards, Edwardian
sideboards, Victorian buffets,
antique dumb waiters, Georgian
sets of 6,8, 10 dining chairs, Victorian
balloon back dining chairs, sets of Victorian
dining chairs, 4, 6, 8 and Edwardian
dining chairs including Hepplewhite
dining chairs, Chippendale style
dining chairs and Ladderback dining
chairs, Georgian d end dining
tables to seat 6,8,10,12,Victorian
extending dining tables to seat 6,8,10,12, Edwardian
dining tables to seat 6,8,10,12 , oval
burr walnut tilt top dining table,