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Antique
Furniture
The earliest
furniture was understandably very primitive and only practical,
but gradually the furniture also began to have more importance and
it became decorated. At this point, furniture became an early
status symbol. Wealthy homeowners became more refined and demanded
that their funishings reflect their status and lifestyles.
Some of the earliest extant furniture has been excavated from the
8th-century B.C. Phrygian tumulus, the Midas Mound, in Gordion,
Turkey. Pieces found here include tables and inlaid serving
stands. There are also surviving works from the 9th-8th-century
B.C. Assyrian palace of Nimrud. Antique furniture also includes
furniture from the following ages:
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Medieval
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Elizabethan
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Jacobean
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Restoration
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William & Mary
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Queen
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Early Georgian
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Mid Georgian
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Late Georgian
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Early Victorian
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Mid Victorian
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Late Victorian
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Modernist & Art Deco
These come under the antique furniture from England. There is also
American antique furniture.
American antique furniture falls under
the following categories:
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The Oak Age (1540-1660)
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The Walnut Age (1660-1730)
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The Mahogany Age (1730- 1840)
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Victorian Age (1830- 1901)
American antique furniture can also be divided into
Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and American Empire
styles.
Apart from these there are antique furniture from the oriental and
Far East like furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties,
Huanghuali. Antique furniture is highly expensive as well as
exquisite and unique.
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