Posts Tagged ‘CHAIRS’
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
GEORGE III PAINTED ARMCHAIRS - LIBRARY ARMCHAIR - GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR - DINING CHAIRS - HALL CHAIRS - GEORGE II UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR, the moulded
frame with oval back with padded arms and downswept
supports, the moulded serpentine seatrail centred by an
anthemion clasp, raised on circular tapering fluted legs
with fluted oval feet, circa 1770.
A GEORGE [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, armchairs, cabriole, cabriole legs, Chair, CHAIRS, corner, dining, dining chairs, FRENCH, french style, GEORGE II, George III, GILTWOOD, HALL, LIBRARY, mahogany, mahogany chair, oval, Regency, side chairs, Upholstered, WHITE-PAINTED
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Mahogany Hepplewhite Chair - Georgian Chair - Sheraton Style Arm and Single Chair in Mahogany
A mahogany Hepplewhite chair of pleas the late eighteenth century arms show the more restrained curves of the seat, legs and stretchers are still bold and firm in proportion.
Value points: Quality of back splat carving.
A Country Hepplewhite design chair, c.1795, of [...]
Tags: CHAIRS, country, design, hepplewhite, Hepplewhite Chairs, late eighteenth century, mahogany, mahogany chair, proportion, quality, Range, Sheraton, square legs, style chairs, upright, value
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
CHAIRS rocking and special purpose
A typical Edwardian child’s chair in birch or beech, originally either white-painted or stained. The lower mechanism allows the chair to be set in a lower position or, additionally, to rest as a ‘rocker’ on the ground. Quite a common and popular child’s chair in the pre-1914 period. 1900-1914
A typical turned [...]
Tags: 18th century, art nouveau designs, CHAIRS, edwardian, modern art, revival, small chairs, square legs, square proportion
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
CHAIRS upholstered, Victorian spoon backs
The spoon back chair, usually with buttoned upholstery to the back, has become an accepted ’standard’ in the antique trade following its revival in the 1960s. Many such chairs are elegant, cheerful and, as with much rococo-derived furniture, slightly frivolous in appearance. The cabriole-legged variety is the most highly valued, followed [...]
Tags: 1880s, 1960s, Antique, ARMCHAIR, button back, cabriole, CHAIRS, example, mahogany, Missing, rococo style, walnut
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
CHAIRS reproductions, 1880-1930
The return to 18th century styles in the 1880s affected chairs almost more than other furniture. Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite chairs were produced in varying grades of quality and exactitude. Queen Anne cabriole legs with ‘fiddle’ backs soon followed and, of course, the medieval oak craze had to be met by chair makers [...]
Tags: back chair, cabriole legs, CHAIRS, chippendale, chippendale chair, chippendale style, English, hepplewhite, Hepplewhite Chairs, Jacobean, Jacobethan, style chairs
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
CHAIRS upholstered, Victorian uprights
As the wavy curves of the rococo died out, so a new, severer, heavier and altogether more stolid form appeared. Built rather too enduringly and associated with the graver, more portentous side of Victorian life, these chairs have not yet found great popularity and many more would have been broken up if [...]
Tags: 18th century, ARMCHAIR, Arts, CHAIRS, classical design, Crafts, curves, EARLY, hepplewhite, mahogany chair, oak, Rococo, style, upholstery, victorian comfort, victorian life
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
CHAIRS upholstered, occasional
The turn of the century saw an onslaught of a type of chair, neither for dining nor for long-term comfortable seating, which is aptly named ‘occasional’. They were made in a variety of styles and we show a selection on these pages which cover most of the normal types. Rather than dwell individually [...]
Tags: 17th century, 18th century, ARMCHAIR, CHAIRS, chippendale style, high quality, mahogany, original, upholstered chairs, wainscot
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
CHAIRS country and kitchen : wooden seated, 1860-1930
This section also includes chairs for institutional and office use, made in large quantities by mass-production methods. On the whole they are more durable than rush-seated chairs and tend to be perennially favourite types such as the Windsor which is still going strong. In the mid- and late [...]
Tags: 18th century, Antique, cabriole, cabriole leg, CHAIRS, kitchen, value, windsor chair, Windsor Chairs, Windsors
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
CHAIRS — children’s high
Here of course, one cannot judge a chair by its correctness of proportion as against the adult equivalent. Instead the test has to be how successfully the maker has elongated the piece while keeping in sympathy with the style of his period.
In this fine child’s oak chair the maker has got it [...]
Tags: 17th century, 19th century, Chair, CHAIRS, EARLY, hepplewhite, high chair, nineteenth century, oak, oak chair, seventeenth century, stretcher, Windsor, windsor chair
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
CHAIRS — children’s low
Very well made walnut child’s chair. Gloriously successful cabrioles, arms, legs and back. Only possible fault is that the back should perhaps be a fraction higher to be in proper proportion, but this is a very minor quibble about a superb piece. c.1720
An early eighteenth century child’s country chair; from the photograph [...]
Tags: acid, century, Chair, CHAIRS, curve, eighteenth century, hepplewhite, photograph, walnut, Windsor, yew
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