Table Clock
A Table Clock is a substantial clock designed to sit on a table or sideboard rather than a mantelpiece, a form dating from the 16th century, often housed in ornate gilt or engraved cases.
A Table Clock is a substantial clock designed to sit on a table or sideboard rather than a mantelpiece, a form dating from the 16th century, often housed in ornate gilt or engraved cases.
A Tallboy is a tall chest of drawers, typically formed of two stacked sections, developed in the early 18th century as a taller alternative to the lowboy, offering greater storage capacity.
A Tambour Desk is a writing desk fitted with a flexible sliding cover made of thin wooden slats glued to canvas, allowing the desk to be closed and locked without disturbing papers left inside.
A Tankard is a large, handled drinking vessel, often lidded, made in silver, pewter or stoneware, used for beer or ale from the medieval period through the 19th century.
Tapestry is a hand-woven textile in which the design is created by the weft threads themselves rather than applied afterward, historically used for grand wall hangings depicting narrative and heraldic scenes.
A Tavern Clock, or Act of Parliament clock, is a large wall clock with an oversized dial and short trunk, historically hung in public inns following 1797 legislation that briefly taxed personal clocks and watches.
A Tavern Table is a sturdy, plain wooden table historically used in inns and taverns, valued today for its honest, functional construction and rustic character.
A Tazza is a shallow, wide bowl or cup mounted on a stemmed foot, made in silver, glass or ceramic, a classical form revived extensively in Renaissance and Neoclassical decorative arts.
A Tea Caddy is a small lockable box for storing tea leaves, a valuable commodity in the 18th century, often fitted with internal compartments and made in fine woods, silver or tortoiseshell.
A Tea Strainer is a small perforated implement used to catch tea leaves while pouring, a standard accessory of Georgian and Victorian silver tea services.
A Tea Table is a small table designed for serving tea, becoming a fashionable furniture form in the 18th century as tea-drinking rituals grew in social importance, often tripod-legged with a tilting top.
Teak is a durable, oily tropical hardwood historically used for shipbuilding and colonial furniture, and later a signature material of Scandinavian and mid-century modern furniture design for its warm colour and weather resistance.
Theodore Deck (1823-1891) was a French ceramicist renowned for reviving historic glaze techniques, including a distinctive turquoise blue glaze, and for embracing Japonisme and Islamic-inspired decoration.
Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) was the most influential English furniture maker of the 18th century, whose 1754 pattern book The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director shaped furniture design across Britain and America for generations.
Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806) was an English furniture designer whose influential pattern books established the elegant, geometric Neoclassical style that bears his name.
Thomas Webb & Sons was an English glassmaking firm based in Stourbridge, active from 1837, celebrated for exceptional cameo glass and cut crystal produced through the Victorian era.
Tiffany Studios was the design workshop founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany, responsible for the celebrated leaded glass lamps, Favrile glass and decorative metalwork that defined American Art Nouveau.
Tin-Glazed Earthenware is pottery coated with an opaque white glaze made using tin oxide, providing a smooth surface for painted decoration, the technical basis for maiolica, faience and delftware traditions across Europe.
A Tinder Box is a small container holding flint, steel and tinder used to strike a fire before the invention of matches, a common household item until the mid-19th century.
A Toast Rack is a table accessory with divided wire or bar compartments for holding slices of toast upright, keeping them crisp, a distinctly English silver breakfast table item from the 18th century onward.
A Toasting Fork is a long-handled fork used to hold bread close to an open fire for toasting, a common fireside implement of the 18th and 19th centuries, often with a decoratively turned handle.
A Tobacco Jar is a lidded container for storing pipe tobacco, made in materials from pottery and pewter to carved wood, a common Victorian and Edwardian gentleman's accessory.
A Toby Jug is a jug or mug modelled in the form of a seated figure, typically a jovial character in period dress, a distinctly English ceramic tradition dating from the mid-18th century.
Toile de Jouy is a cotton or linen fabric printed with detailed pastoral or narrative scenes in a single colour on a pale ground, developed in 18th-century France and enduringly popular for furnishing fabric.
Tole is painted tin or sheet metal, decorated with hand-painted or stencilled designs, used from the 18th century for trays, boxes and lighting fixtures as a lightweight, affordable decorative material.
Tortoiseshell is a mottled, translucent material from the shell of the hawksbill turtle, historically used for boxes, combs and inlay work, now subject to strict international trade restrictions due to conservation concerns.
Tracery is ornamental stonework forming patterned openwork, most associated with the upper sections of Gothic windows, and a recurring decorative reference in Gothic Revival furniture and architectural salvage.
Transferware is ceramic ware decorated using transfer printing, in which an engraved design is printed onto paper and applied to the ceramic surface, a technique developed in the 1750s that made detailed decoration widely affordable.
A Transom is a horizontal bar dividing a window or the panel above a door, often glazed to admit additional light, a common feature of Georgian doorways.
Travertine is a porous, banded limestone formed near mineral springs, used since Roman antiquity for building facades and flooring, prized for its warm colour and distinctive natural texture.
Treen is a collective term for small handmade domestic objects turned or carved from wood, such as bowls, spoons and boxes, a folk craft tradition dating from the medieval period through the 19th century.
A Trefoil is a three-lobed decorative motif resembling a stylised clover leaf, widely used in Gothic tracery, furniture carving and heraldic ornament.
A Trestle Table is a table with a top supported on two or more freestanding trestle frames rather than fixed legs, one of the earliest table forms, allowing the table to be dismantled and stored when not in use.
A Tripod Table is a small occasional table supported on three splayed legs from a central column, a highly popular and stable form throughout the 18th century for tea and card tables.
A Trivet is a small stand, typically with three or four short feet, used to protect a table or hearth surface from a hot pot or iron, made in brass, iron or ceramic and often decoratively pierced.
Troika Pottery was a Cornish studio pottery active from 1963 to 1983, known for textured, abstract-decorated vases and sculptural pieces that have become highly collectable 20th-century British ceramics.
A Trumeau Mirror is a French mirror combining a painted or decorative panel above a mirrored lower section, historically designed to be set into wall panelling above a fireplace or door.
A Trumpet Table is a small table with a turned pedestal base that flares outward like a trumpet, an elegant William and Mary period furniture form.
A Tudor Arch is a flattened, four-centred arch characteristic of English Tudor architecture, offering a wider opening than a pointed Gothic arch while retaining a Gothic silhouette.
Tudor Style refers to English architecture and furniture of the 15th and 16th centuries, characterised by oak construction, linenfold panelling, exposed timber framing and the distinctive four-centred Tudor arch.
Tulipwood is a Brazilian hardwood with distinctive pink and yellow streaked figuring, highly prized for fine furniture veneers, banding and marquetry in 18th-century French furniture.
A Tureen is a large, lidded serving dish for soup or stew, made in silver or porcelain, often elaborately modelled and a centrepiece of formal 18th and 19th-century dining services.
