Hansord Antiques

From blank canvas to dressed stand! Really pleased with how the stand at The Decorative Fair came together yesterday! Looking forward to seeing you all at tomorrow’s opening. I do have tickets for Wednesday onwards and one left for the opening tomorrow, message me if you would like one.
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So after leaving the uk on Tuesday and heading to Dubai on the wettest day on record we spent 52 hours trapped inside the airport with no communication from anyone at the airlines!
The first evening was spent queuing in a mad way (not like us English 😂) to get the flight changed, 4.30am we managed to do this! No offer of food or drink and all accommodation full
Then we eventually fly out on Friday morning at 7.30! 28 hours later.
Hurrah I hear you say! But alas, although we arrived our luggage decided to stay in Dubai and has still not made it to our destination! Our lovely taxi driver took us to a shop and we bought a few bits to see us through looks like we should have got a few outfits not one.
Shame on you Emirates and fly Dubai, I know you didn’t plan the rain and floods but your customer service was appalling!
Now to enjoy and relax with my beautiful Nata Yarwood and hope our luggage arrives before we buy everything in the hotel shop!
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Looking forward to returning to the in a couple of weeks time and bring an eclectic mix of furniture and works of art, looking at the showroom views it’s hard to decide what to load on the van! #

Some more of the new images for the website!
We are only 15 minutes from the Lincoln fair and 35 minutes from Hemswell antiques centres and the Newark fair

Fresh from a lovely home, a charming small Queen Anne walnut bureau bookcase of just the colour you want to find in a piece of furniture

A super set of 8 Hepplewhite shield back chairs with a pair of carvers, fresh from a private collection where many items where bought from the Grosvenor House Antiques fair back in the 1980’s, lovely colour and patina

Very smart Regency period calamander centre table, would look amazing as a hall table in many situations! Great paw feet and lovely colour

Great Chippendale period mahogany blind fret serving table

Natasha’s son and his band have released a single today any support would be brilliant it’s available on Apple Music and Spotify

Carrier needed to take a cabinet on stand to Brussels, any recommendations please?

South African cape furniture! A great example of an 18th century Dutch colonial chest with moulded front, made in the Cape with original handle and paw feet. I think the timber is called stink wood

As we say fair well to the last day light of 2023 I wish all my friends, colleagues and clients a very happy new year! Let’s hope 2024 brings us all happiness and success! Cheers to you all 🥂

Felt so lucky to see these rare natural phenomena the rainbow cloud or Nacreous clouds to be technical ! Never seen the the northern lights but can say this was just beautiful and hard not to keep watching

Really unusual wine table with cedar wood base and olive? I think on the segmented top, possibly Maltese?

One of my favourite new items not yet on the website is this super needlework picture with country house and figures beneath the willow tree #

New helper with the website this morning!! Uploading lots of new things over the week! Please do have a look #

Love this straw work box of Clarendon house details on website.

Wonderful example@of a Lane pocket globe on out stand at the Olympia antiques fair last day tomorrow! Ticket last image of the post if you want to come and see us. Upstairs in the grand hall and you can visit spirt of Christmas as well!

So after a long few hours all set up and ready for tomorrow!
Please do come and visit us ticket in previous post!!

So it begins! Blank canvas at Olympia! Please do come and see us starting tomorrow you can also enjoy the sprit of Christmas show! #

Showing the label from my previous post and the whole of the frame!

Just in from a private collection with a lovely label from Thomas Agnew and sons, is this fabulous oil on canvas of Windsor castle in original carved gilt wood frame. It will be coming to London with me to the Winter art and antiques fair at Olympia, invitation attached just show on your phone! It will be great to see you!

Now added to the website is this fabulous 18th century Chippendale period mahogany dressing chest. More information on the website but a lot of details that Chippendale used in his workshops are found on this super chest.

The top two images are from Chippendale furniture at Nostell Priory with what he called his finest gilt brass handles, the bottom two images from a gentleman’s dressing chest more images to follow #

A very smart pair of cast iron and gilded staircase panels now making a very cool pair of coffee tables with glass tops, the panels I guess French 19th century #

Just purchased from a local private collection is this superb life size marble bust of Napoleon 19th century

Just added along with other new items to the website www.hansord.com

A wonderful piece of high Victorian country house fashion! A miniature green house terrarium just added to the website!!

Really smart Chippendale period mahogany country house library desk