Posts Tagged ‘mahogany chair’

GEORGE III PAINTED ARMCHAIRS - LIBRARY ARMCHAIR - GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR - DINING CHAIRS - HALL CHAIRS - GEORGE II UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR

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 [...]

George III Wing Armchair Upholstered - Mahogany Wing Armchair - Eighteenth Century French Armchair

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

George III Wing Armchair Upholstered - Mahogany Wing Armchair - Eighteenth Century French Armchair
A George III wing armchair upholstered in leather  c.1770. Note the square stretcher and leg construction of ‘Chippendale’ design. The curve of the wings is pleasant but the arms are a little stiff.
Price Range: $200  $300
N.B. As these chairs command high prices [...]

Mahogany Hepplewhite Chair - Georgian Chair - Sheraton Style Arm and Single Chair in Mahogany

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 [...]

Country Chippendale chair in mahogany - Hepplewhite chairs - Hepplewhite arm and single chair

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Country Chippendale chair in mahogany - Hepplewhite chairs - Hepplewhite arm and single chair
Country Chippendale chair in mahogany c.1760. Fully upholstered seat covered in tapestry pattern fabric. A good example of a better quality country chair.
Mahogany Chippendale chair of pleasing simplicity and proportion, c.1780. The splat is elegantly curved and the back, though square in [...]

George II period mahogany chair - Antique Chair in Oak - Chippendale mahogany chair in the Gothic style - A Chippendale mahogany ladder-back chair

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

George II period mahogany chair - Antique Chair in Oak - Chippendale mahogany chair in the Gothic style - A Chippendale mahogany ladder-back chair
A George II period mahogany chair, c.1735. quality Cuban mahogany has been used, the normally be associated with walnut; but there se Shaped splat has small scrolls and a shell
are topped [...]

Set of Mahogany Chairs, Dining Chairs and Settee, Furniture Antiques

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Antique Set of Mahogany Chairs, Dining Chairs and Settee
A SET OF SEVEN GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
Each with a shield-shaped back and pierced vase splat, with a padded seat, on square tapered legs with spade feet, and a matching single chair of a later date.
A GEORGE II STYLE MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR
With a floral-carved top-rail and [...]

Victorian Upholstered Upright Chairs

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 [...]

Late 18th Century Chairs

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Late 1700`s Chair
The variety of chairs burgeoned in the mid to late 18th century, with French styles remaining popular. Although elements of the Rococo style lingered, chairs began to look more Neoclassical and became squarer and straighter. cabriole legs were rejected in favour of turned, tapered supports, often fluted or decorated with reeding, and oval [...]

Antique Hall Chair

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Hall Chairs
Small, formal and more decorative than functional hall chairs were first named by Robert Manwaring, a furniture designer, in The Chair-Makers Real Friend and Companion, published in 1865.
Thomas Sheraton noted in The Cabinet Dictionary that chairs such as those that are placed in halls are for the use of servants or strangers waiting [...]

Chippendale Chair

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Thomas Chippendale Chairs
THE CHAIRS that Chippendale created and reproduced in his book The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1762) offer a sample of the various design trends in the mid to late 18th century, such as Rococo, Chinese, Gothic, and Neoclassical. Chippendale’s name has become generic for 18th-century furniture and, in particular, chairs, but his designs [...]