Butcher's block
This is a butcher's chopping block of naturalistic form, with three splayed lags, made from ash. It dates from the 19th century. Height 640mm, Width 550mm
Cabinet
A Sheraton design china cabinet.
Chair, early 19th century
Child's wooden Windsor chair. Windsor chairs were usually made of several different woods - beech for the 'turned' parts, like the legs; elm for the seat; ash for the bowed back. Buckinghamshire was the ...
Chest
A carved oak sword chest which dates to the early 17th century, 1600-1625.
Childs Chair
This is a child's chair that is thought to have come from one of the schools the author George Eliot attended - The Elms in Vicarage Street. Nuneaton.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local ...
Child's commode chair
This green-painted wooden commode chair has solid sides with upswept arm terminals. The front has a tray-top section, and the whole shaped front hinges open. The seat inside has a circular hole. It is ...
Circular occasional table
This small table has a dished sycamore and maple top on a ring-turned column and three arched splayed legs made of ash and beech. It is possibly American, and dates from the early 19th century. Height ...
Clock
A black slate encased mantel clock with an aneroid barometer. The clock has three faces, with the large dial telling the time with Roman numerals. The dial to the left gives the moon phases, days of the ...
Clock
A French porcelain clock made in Paris. It features ornate, applied, painted and gilded floral decoration and a white clock face with black Roman numerals. A pendulum is visible.
Clock
A skeleton clock designed in the form of the west porch of a cathedral. It was probably made in England between 1850 and 1885. The clock was sold by Henry Bright of Leamington Spa.
Comb-back Windsor armchair
This ash chair has a perched toprail, arms with spindle gallery and four splayed legs. The back is longer than the legs. It comes from England's West Country and date from the late 18th or early 19th ...
Comb-back Windsor armchair
This primitive ash chair has a small bar toprail, an oak square-section armbow and splayed legs joined by stretchers, which may be a later addition. The back legs are much closer to each other than the ...
Comb-back Windsor armchair - front
This chair is made of ash and has a waved toprail, in-curved front arm supports and four splayed legs. It was originally painted green. Two legs are probably old replacements. The chair comes from England's ...
Comb-back Windsor armchair - side
This chair is made of ash and has a waved toprail, in-curved front arm supports and four splayed legs. It was originally painted green. Two legs are probably old replacements. The chair comes from England's ...
Desk and stool
This writing desk was the personal property of the author George Eliot.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
Dug-out seat - back
This partly-painted seat is made from a solid piece of a birch tree trunk. It has an arched back, a pierced carrying-handle, a solid seat and a waisted plinth base. Dug-out seats used to be known as 'treetrunk ...
Dug-out seat - detail of back
This partly-painted seat is made from a solid piece of a birch tree trunk. It has an arched back, a pierced carrying-handle, a solid seat and a waisted plinth base. Dug-out seats used to be known as 'treetrunk ...
Dug-out seat - front
This partly-painted seat is made from a solid piece of a birch tree trunk. It has an arched back, a pierced carrying-handle, a solid seat and a waisted plinth base. Dug-out seats used to be known as 'treetrunk ...