Posts Tagged ‘mahogany chair’
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
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 [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, bamboo, cabriole legs, century, CHINESE, chippendale, Crafts, design, eighteenth, George III, mahogany, mahogany chair, original, Regency, regency period
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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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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 [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, Chair, chippendale, country, hepplewhite, Hepplewhite Chairs, mahogany, mahogany chair, oak, Queen Anne, robert adam, walnut
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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 [...]
Tags: Antique, ARMCHAIR, cabriole, cabriole legs, century, ChairChippendale, chippendale chair, cuban mahogany, leaf patterns, mahogany, mahogany chair, right angles, scrolled feet, Seventeenth, side, Upholstered
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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 [...]
Tags: 20th century, Antique, ARMCHAIR, cabriole legs, dining chairs, George III, mahogany, mahogany chair, Regency, SUITE, walnut
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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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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 [...]
Tags: 18th century, armchairs, blue silk, cabriole, cabriole legs, Chair, CHAIRS, CHINESE, corner, design, desk chairs, English, FRENCH, french styles, furniture, George III, gilding, louis xv, mahogany, mahogany chair, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Rococo, rococo style, side, side chair, side chairs, sofas, stools, walnut
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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 [...]
Tags: Antique, cabinet makers, Chair, CHAIRS, English, FRENCH, furniture designer, mahogany, mahogany chair, pattern, Renaissance, side chairs, thomas chippendale, thomas sheraton, wooden chairs
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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 [...]
Tags: 18th century furniture, Cabinet, cabinet maker, cabriole, chair backs, Chippendale Chairs, design, English, fruitwoods, George III, mahogany, mahogany chair, Neoclassicism, pattern, robert adam, Rococo, settee, side, thomas chippendale
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