Object Description
A Very Good Quality 19th Century Late
Regency Period Rosewood Whatnot,
Or Étagère, Having Three Well Figured
Tiers United By Elegant Turned Upright
Supports And Legs, Terminating On
Original Brass Castors.
A fabulous quality and most useful item of furniture
that adds both elegance and class to absolutely any
environment around the house.
The rosewood veneers are extremely well selected
and highly figured and the overall size of the item is
big enough to be useful and practical as perhaps a
coffee table, or lamp table at the side of a settee or
an armchair, without being overpoweringly large.
The word Étagère is derived from the French word
for a set of open freestanding shelves and although
in England the term Whatnot is much more common
the two phrases are pretty much always interchangeable
these days, although more often than not you will find
that the term Whatnot is used to describe larger
variations of this design, whereas Étagère will be
used to describe this smaller variants.