How many doors does an enfilade have?

Where the door count is stated at all, it's three or four, written as "Three Door", "3 Door" or "4 door". Many titles skip it. The doors are panelled and run in one line under a single top. That row is what the name refers to.

Are enfilades always French?

Not always, but usually. "French" appears in 94 of 146 titles, which makes it the most consistently stated fact in the category. Swedish painted examples account for nine titles, with Danish and Scandinavian painted pine alongside. Four Italian painted pieces appear, plus one Spanish and one English.

What timbers were used?

At least nine are named across the archive: oak, cherry, walnut, chestnut, elm and burr elm, pine, fruitwood, burr ash, mahogany and maple. Oak leads the bare timbers with 41 titles. Walnut follows at 11. The burr woods and cherry combinations tend to sit at the upper end of the range.

Painted or bare wood, which is commoner?

Paint, just. It appears in 46 titles against 41 for oak, with "french painted" alone accounting for 19. Only three titles specify "Original Painted", so the word painted on its own says the surface is there, not when it was applied.

Do enfilades come as pairs?

Almost never. They arrive singly. One pair of Swedish painted enfilades appears in the whole archive of 146 listings.

How old are most enfilades on the market?

The dated field runs from 1750 to 1940, but the big block is 19th century, on 69 listings. Sixteen carry 18th century. Where decades are given they cluster mid to late 19th century, with the 1860s, 1890s and 1880s leading. A short 20th-century tail runs into the 1930s and 1940s.

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An enfilade is a long, low cupboard with its doors in a single row and nothing above the top, built as French dining-room storage for linen, tableware and food.