18th Century Antique English pre-Chippendale Chairs
CHAIRS: PRE-CHIPPENDALE - Antique chairs furniture of early 18th century - French walnut chair - Queen Anne period chairs - Chippendale chairs - antique mahogany chair - chairs in this transitional style
Antique chairs furniture of early 18th century belong a transitional phase, its most significant feature being the introduction of mahogany hard, richly coloured and ideal for carving following the destruction of the French walnut chair in the exceptionally hard winter of 1709. The grandest furniture of this time was made in the ponderous classical style of the architect William Kent; regular household furniture retained the simple, elegant lines of the Queen Anne period chairs, and combined them with some of the ‘new features’ now thought of as ‘Chippendale’.
Solid and substantial early 18th century chairs with broad seats and squatter and broader cabrioles than before, typically with claw-and-ball, sometimes ‘hairy paw’ feet. Winged serpentine rail characteristic of Chippendale chairs now started to appear but it was less elegant, with protruding, scrolling corners, or shoulders were rounded, dipping sharply into centre of crest rail. Splats were pierced, often ribbed and splaying out towards the top. Carving on the knees was often hipped into the seat rail. Drop-in or stuff-over seats, sometimes with show-wood rails.
Early 18th century chairs are mainly mahogany, but still some made from walnut (as stocks lasted), even for’mahoganystyle’ chairs.
Robust antique mahogany chair of the 1740s reflecting the ponderous architectural style of William heal.
No longer part-veneered chair, but constructed from solid timber throughout (see CHIPPENDALE CHAIRS, opposite).
Carving on knees and crest rail. Acanthus and foliate designs replaced former shells and small C-scrolls. Grandest chairs could be ‘parcel-gilt’, meaning small areas of gilded decoration.
The scarcity of quality, well-proportioned chairs in this transitional style pushes their price up well into the thousands. A fine pair may fetch three or even four times as much as a standard quality pair. Country or
provincial versions will usually be less than half the price.
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