In conjunction with our partner Homes & Antiques, LAPADA is pleased to offer expert advice on buying an antique bed by expert dealer and LAPADA member Paul Beedham.
Mr Paul Beedham
Beedham Antiques Ltd.
Antique Guides
The term 'antiquities' refers to artefacts from prehistory to roughly Medieval Period. The term is very broad and covers the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, ancient Egypt, ancient Near Eastern cultures and delves into prehistoric periods and Asian civilizations.
Christopher Martin
C.J. Martin (Coins) & Ancient Art Ltd
A YELLOW GOLD PENDANT 44 x 42mm 15.8g A yellow gold geometric pendant depicting a rabbit. Lucas Rarities Ltd By appointment London +44 (0)020 7100 8881 [email protected] www.lucasrarities.com
A RENAISSANCE DIAMOND RING 16th century £43,000 An impressive 16th century ring, set with a square point cut diamond in a closed back rubover setting with an approximate weight of 0.90 carats, to a raised pyramid shaped central collet with fine scalloped double arches and pelleted border to base, incised saltire to the underside and…
EARLY CARVED PANEL c.1450 A very well carved Continental panel, retaining its original polychrome decoration. Peter Bunting Antiques Harthill Hall Alport Bakewell Derbyshire DE45 1LH +44 (0)7860 540870 [email protected] www.countryoak.co.uk Peter Bunting Antiques specialises in antique oak furniture, portraits, tapestries and related items.
A VERY RARE VENETIAN LOW FOOTED GLASS BOWL Approximately 10″ in diameter £15,000 A very rare Venetian low footed Glass Bowl, c.1500–1525; the shallow tray of the bowl moulded with a series of ribs radiating from the raised centre; the broad rim decorated with an intricate pattern of gilded scales embellished with white, red and…
R. W. Symonds, a renowned furniture historian, once pronounced that gilt gesso furniture was unparalleled: ‘It possessed a quality which no carving in wood could emulate’.*
Diamonds were probably worn as early as the sixth century BC, though the oldest extant examples date from Ancient Rome.
Berganza
Berganza Ltd
Most significant portrait miniature collections also contain portrait enamels. These usually resemble watercolour portrait miniatures in their framing and size, yet they were produced in a very different way and their creators were more closely associated with watchmakers and jewellers than with the manuscript illuminators who evolved the first portrait miniatures.
Philip Mould & Company
Philip Mould & Company
Anyone who works with antiques, especially restorers who spend literally days burnishing pieces to bring back their lustre, will tell you that wood is wonderful.
Mr Charles Wallrock
Wick Antiques Ltd