Victorian era Eastlake parlor chair

Charming antique chair. The Eastlake-style hand-carving dates this chair to late 1800s. The round seat is 24" diameter. The front legs have small wheels.

For current pricing and available, please click here to see the craigslist ad.

Slosh over to The Living Room to cure cabin fever

1960s, handpainted parlor lamp, Victorian or "GWTW" style.

After so many days enjoying hearth and home, hemmed in by snow, it will be good to have The Living Room open on schedule again this Saturday. Stop by between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. for a good cup of tea and a stroll through our treasures. Sure cure for cabin fever!

(Oh, I do mean slosh! Our flat parking lot was full of slush on Friday evening, so wear your galoshes with good tread!)

Grandmama's purple velvet Victorian style chair

A very fun place to sit with a cup of tea.
Probably an old reproduction of an older chair; quite sweet.
$225. UPDATE: SOLD

Antique side chairs: Queen Anne meets shabby chic

(UPDATE: These chairs sold 12/3/2011)


Lovely new consignment: a pair of antique chairs, refinished in roses of captivating charm:

The springs in the seat cushions are in great condition, and tell us these chairs are not reproductions but vintage.
Shabby chic refinishing and tasteful reupholstery give these sturdy Queen Anne-style side chairs a beautiful extension on life.
$125 each. SOLD
www.thelivingroominkenmore.com

The GWTW Lamp Goes Chimeric

Here's a happy update to a recent post. Cynthia brought in an interesting piece of lamp that fits perfectly on the vintage parlor lamp base.

Here we've set a small cup with a tealight on the existing socket, but you could use a standard-base decor light bulb.
What do you think?

Lamplight for cozy evenings

Antique Cast iron cat door stop ($58) contemplates vintage cast glass lion in GWTW lamp base ($38)

I learned yet another phrase to describe a portion of this world's temporal treasures: GWTW, as in anything related to the book and movie "Gone With the Wind", as in this case, Victorian-style, double-globe, glass lamps. So much to learn, so little time :^)

The Curious Case of the Antique Commode

Here's one of the pieces that came in from the Spokane wheat farm's homestead heritage (although I think they must have sold a few crops before acquiring this one :^)

a round commode disguised as a "library stool"...

...complete with retractable step:

It's been hard finding a comparison, although the top half of the commode looks very much like this piece from "1818", a UK auction house:

So, I'm thinking, the bottom 10 inches with the step stool was an upgrade.

Another puzzle is the actual chamber pot that sits in the commode. The pot fits just right in the commode, and its glaze is aged and crackled (I couldn't find my way to saying "the glaze is aged and crazed", although I think that is the proper term). But it doesn't seem antiquitous, does it?

A bit of sleuthing finds that the Royal Winton Grimwades mark on the bottom, per http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/g/grimwades.html, dates from 1934 to 1950:

So, we have the curious case of a Victorian commode that was retrofitted with a new chamber pot in the mid-1900's.

I hope to show you more of the wheat farm treasures soon, but it is late. Time, perhaps, to retire to the Sherlock Holmes smoking chair, not to smoke, but to sip tea and ponder. Luckily, exactly such a chair was included in the Spokane Connection's delivery. You can just see the old fellow brooding away in such a chair, can't you?