A handsome French Provincial farmhouse table, built to seat six to eight comfortably. The base is fruitwood, most likely cherry, with a deep, mellow colour and the clean, tapering square legs typical of provincial French cabinetmaking. The joints are pinned, and it has a single frieze drawer with a brass pull to one end.

The four plank oak top has a rich, well developed patina, with lively figuring, natural knots and the soft wear of generations of daily use. The base dates from the early to mid 19th century, and the oak top, a later 19th century replacement, has aged to sit comfortably with it. The table is in good, solid condition, stable and ready to use as a kitchen or dining table.

Height: 760mm

Length: 1830mm

Depth: 900mm

This George III mahogany chest of drawers, Circa 1780–1800, is a handsome, well-proportioned Georgian piece with excellent colour and a deep, mellow patina. The moulded top sits above three short drawers over three graduated long drawers, each cockbeaded and cut from richly figured mahogany, with brass keyhole escutcheons. The chest stands on ogee bracket feet.

The pierced brass batwing handles are replacements, but they are appropriate to the period and suit the chest beautifully.

The chest is in good condition, with the surface character expected of two centuries of use, including some age-related marks to the top. There is a minor loss to one of the bracket feet. A very practical and elegant Georgian chest of drawers, equally at home in a bedroom, hall or sitting room.

Height: 970mm

Width: 1100mm

Depth: 540mm

An imposing and well proportioned Australian Colonial dumb waiter in solid Australian cedar, Circa 1870. Three generous open shelves, each with a raised gallery to the back and sides and a neatly moulded edge, are carried on bold turned baluster uprights joined through square blocks. Turned finials crown the corner posts, and the turned feet sit on their original porcelain castors, which roll freely.

Dumb waiters like this were the Victorian answer to the serving buffet, standing beside the dining table to hold plates, dishes and decanters within easy reach. Today this one works just as well as a stylish serving trolley, a buffet in a dining room or kitchen, or open display and storage in a hallway or sitting room.

The cedar has a warm, glowing colour and nice grain, with a good mellow patina. It is in lovely original condition, with a sound, solid frame.

Height: 1330mm

Width: 1370mm

Depth: 555mm

A handsome Victorian figured walnut open bookcase from the workshops of James Shoolbred & Co, the celebrated Tottenham Court Road furnishers of London. Circa 1870.

The moulded cornice top carries richly figured walnut with a lovely warm colour and a deep, glowing patina built up over 150 years or more. The sides are equally well figured, and the whole stands on a solid plinth base. The adjustable shelves can be set to suit books of any height, so this antique bookcase is as practical today as when it was made. Its low, dwarf proportions make it a versatile piece for a library, study, living room or hallway, and the top is a useful surface for lamps, pictures or objects.

Part of the original James Shoolbred & Co ivorine maker's label remains on the back, identifying Tottenham House, Tottenham Court Road, London. Shoolbred was among the leading furnishing houses of Victorian London, and the label is a welcome mark of provenance.

Condition is good, with nice colour and a lovely, deep patina and the gentle age-related wear expected of a Victorian bookcase of this date.

Height 1020mm

Width 1220mm

Depth 270mm.