Many pieces were intended to be made in inlaid satinwood, others in mahogany or with japanned decoration.
Existing bills for work carried out by his firm at Nostell Priory and Harewood House, Yorkshire, during this final phase of his career identify the fine Neoclassical mahogany and marquetried satinwood furniture with which he supplied these houses and show that, as cabinetmakers and upholsterers, his firm undertook all branches of interior decoration.
The superb satinwood and inlaid commodes (possibly designed by Thomas Chippendale II) and other furniture at Harewood House are masterpieces of the cabinetmaker's craft, upon which his reputation may safely rest.
The considerable craftsmanship involved in the artistic use of veneers is most evident in the 18th and early 19th centuries, when Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton employed mahogany and satinwood veneers.
The Indo-Malaysian Chloroxylon swietenia (satinwood), eastern Australian Flindersia oxleyana (Australian yellowwood), and Caribbean Zanthoxylum flavum (West Indian silkwood) are used for veneering and cabinetmaking.
Their well-known pinewood card table (c. 1785 1804), veneered with mahogany and satinwood, reveals a restrained and selective treatment of Hepplewhite.
The term Sheraton has been recklessly bestowed upon vast quantities of late 18th-century painted and inlaid satinwood furniture, but, properly understood and used in a generic sense, Sheraton is an appropriate label recognizing a mastermind behind the period.
Wildlife, including elephants, leopards, bears, buffalo, and peafowl, and tree species such as ebony, mahogany, satinwood, and teak are being rapidly depleted by indiscriminate exploitation.
A pair of rare satinwood pier tables of the same period with tops painted with garlands ("swags") of flowers realized only £58,850.
The teenagers were allowed some leeway for self-expression while painting on maple, birch or satinwood.
