Featured Room Tour Anyone?

Comments from a recent thread planted this idea: How about if we (and I do mean WE) give photo tours of our rooms where our antique passions live? I'll start with a bedroom, telling you about the furnishings one by one. Then it's your turn. Future tours, if any, will depend on the response to this one:


This is a gilt and ebonized walnut bed, part of a set by Berkey & Gay, 1880. The counterpane/quilt/whatever was made by an ancestor in the 1890s and the duck down comforter is almost as old. A triangular walnut side table with a secret compartment ca. 1860 supports a Pairpoint lamp and a Mary Gregory-painted water carafe and tumbler. The painting is a landscape by the French stage and landscape painter Philip James de Loutherbourg ca. 1780.

The dresser goes with the bed. Stuff on the dresser includes a Pittsburg Lamp Company small GWTW oil lamp, a set of baccarat crystal, a Seth Thomas mantle clock that's been in the family since 1910, and a matching set of peg lamps. An 1840s linsey-woolsey piece hangs above an 1820s ebonized child's rocker with an extant fragment of gold decorative paint and a replacement rush seat reportedly from the estate of Alexander Campbell, cofounder of the Disciples of Christ church. A 1970s Kermit sits on the chair with his favorite book, "It's Not Easy Being Green." The bridge lamp is from a garage sale.

The desk is also attributed to Berkey & Gay, ca. 1885. It's similar to the bed set, but has more Eastlake elements in the crest rather than Renaissance Revival. A Dutch watercolor ca. 1900 hangs above, and the desk has objects such as a souvenir Westerwald stein from Neuscwhanstein ca. 1860, a carved warthog tusk, a footed Murano bowl, a couple of Japanese ivories, and a black Americana cigarette humidor ca. 1900. The chair is pierced rosewood, Gothic Revival ca. 1855.

The walnut and tile washstand is from Bournemouth, England ca. 1890. The fan is Japanese. Provenance on the back says its from 1886. The pitcher and bowl have been in the family since the 1840s. The figural lamp and oil lamp are ca. 1900-1910. Underneath is a yellowware jar with lid and a red cut to clear carafe with two glasses, good for promoting fun times. The crock originated in the Kansas City area and has been in the family since before the Civil War. The rug is handmade and about 30 years old.

Whatchugot?

 

Its always interesting to see things from the KC area (where I'm from) since it tends to be a desert for the antiques I tend to collect (which are almost exclusively European)

Nice furniture! One of these days I'll have space to actually collect furniture, in the meantime its all smalls for me

 

@i need help ,You write with your characteristic modesty. I would venture that your home is more than tour worthy....

 

Thanks, @Generic_Lad . How about some photos of your Euro-treasures?

 

Beautiful, Ghopper, and so you.
My home is a mess, I couldn't expose anyone to that.

(If you want a second opinion on the origin of the fan, just ask.)

 

Yes, @Any Jewelry , please offer up your opinion on the fan!

 

Crap, now I have to dust!!! LOL!

 

I would have to see a photo of just the fan, but imo it isn't Japanese. It is beautiful though, is it silk on an ivory frame?

Love the Dutch watercolour too, my eye was drawn to it immediately. Of course.

 

Fabulous pieces, especially the bed. Wow- it must be something to wake up seeing that every morning. Very nice.

 

Working on getting my other ones uploaded -- I'm sorta in an in-between at the moment until my job decides if they want us in office or to be remote forever so the majority of my nicer pieces are in storage (and the vast, vast majority of my silver is in a SDB minus the pieces I actually eat with/use) -- so most of these photos are taken from long ago

Seems like I have to compress images down to next to nothing to get them to upload at a reasonable speed -- and no good way to bulk upload on the forum so using a third-party account

Here's my Austrian Porcelain -- most of the rest is uploading now

https://imgur.com/a/7dmfD4N

https://imgur.com/a/4C40ND6

 

Oh my heavens. That is a beautiful room. Kermit actually made me laugh. Are you adopting? How about a sister from another mister?

 

https://imgbox.com/CQF2mQiw

And here's everything else, I don't see that there's a "gallery" view (and IMGUR hasn't worked for me correctly in a while) so you'll have to click the arrow keys at the top -- but there's really no good way to upload close to 200 images... And yes I know they're compressed tiny -- but if there's anything you want better pictures of or have questions on what it is, just ask -- a single image shouldn't be hard to upload in reasonable quality

EDIT: https://imgbox.com/g/kXMq35RyBx <-- this might be the gallery view link

 

Yea!!!!!! Beautiful room. I wish mine were so well organized. And knowing what everything is and how old is amazing. My collections are so varied and disorganized. Maybe this will inspire me to make them presentable.

 

@Generic_Lad OMG, the treasures! The silver, gold, porcelain, coins, cutlery!! I'm out of my element, but jealous nevertheless. I can see how KC would not be the best place for a collector like you.

@Any Jewelry Yes, the fan is silk and ivory. There is written documentation attached to the back of the frame, which I'm too lazy to take down right now. I do remember that it amounted to a date of 1886, and I thought it had to do with Japan.

What is your opinion on the date and origin?

Just FYI, this is not our bedroom, but a spare bedroom.

 

Totally amazing room, furniture and art. I love the ease and expertise of your descriptions too. Thanks for sharing.

I love the idea for this thread. I'll get a (single!) pic up sometime soon.

 

wow, the bedroom is simply gorgeous. I only wish my place was that neat.

 

Snapshots of our style.