A Mahogany Sheraton Style Single Chair - Country Sheraton Design Armchair  -  Chair of the Early Regency Period
A Sheraton design chair of considerable workmanship. Many such chairs are to be found painted in white and gilt or otherwise having painted decoration on birch or beech wood. In the main the painted versions are
more highly sought [...]

A mahogany Hepplewhite Chair - A Country Hepplewhite Design Chair - Georgian Chair
A mahogany Hepplewhite chair of pleasing proportions. The arms show the more restrained curves of the late 18th century although the seat, legs and stretchers are still bold and firm in proportion.
A Country Hepplewhite design chair of a type most frequently found [...]

Windsor Chair with High Back - A Child’s Windsor Chair with the Gothic Arched Back - Windsor Chair of the 19th Century
WINDSOR CHAIRS
Windsor chairs or stickback chairs as they are more properly called, were probably first made in the early part of the 19th century. Principally they were a cheap form of seating usefulfor public [...]

CHAIRS: English 19th Century Antique
About 1840-1915
More varied in style and quality than any time before or since, traditional hand-craftsmanship having to compete with cheaper mass-manufacture aided by machinery. Numerous (variously-interpreted) pastiches of historic styles (plus later reproductions) and new arts and crafts, aesthetic and progressive or art nouveau styles appeared at various times.
Sets of (usually [...]

CHAIRS: COUNTRY WINDSOR
Late-18th century yew comb-back Windsor chair.
Made from the early-18thC onwards by wood turners or ‘bodgers’ setting up temporary workshops in woodland areas. Although made in many parts of the country - hence enormous regional differences in detail - High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire became, and has remained, the centre of the industry. Since the [...]

COUNTRY: LADDER- AND SPINDLE-BACKS
About 1700-1939
Traditional ladder-back, spindle and other turned chairs were made in all parts of Britain throughout the 18th and 19thC. Although regional variations exist in the shape of turnings and so on, most follow the same basic patterns. Some arts and crafts designers were influenced by the tradition, and from the 1860s [...]

CHAIRS: REGENCY
About 1800-1840
(extending several years either side of the Regency itself, 1811-1820). Chairs made between about 1825 and 1840 are often referred to as ‘late Regency’ or ‘late classical’; those of the 1830s occasionally still ‘William
IV’).
Usually very elegant chairs, some based on previous Sheraton types, but many inspired by Ancient Greek klismos chairs, with their [...]

CHAIRS: HEPPLEWHITE
About 1775-1790
Chair designs from George Hepplewhite’s Guide (1788).
Light and elegant chairs, greatly influenced by the designs of the architect Robert Adam who advocated the use of neo-classical decorative motifs, light coloured woods and upholstery, and painted or inlaid decoration.
Chairs of this date are popularly called Hepplewhite because so many furniture craftsmen followed George Hepplewhite’s [...]

CHAIRS — Chippendale, provincial and country
Trying to arrange such a wide array of chairs in quality order is difficult, and dating even more so. Colour is important and personal preference plays a stronger part in assessment than for London-made pieces which
can be judged against known standards. What is technically not very successful (i.e. 152) can [...]

CHAIRS — Chippendale, cabriole leg
Chippendale designed many chairs with cabriole legs. Country makers continued to use the cabriole with the newer type of Chippendale splat for some time, while a hundred years or so later Victorians made a wide range of imitations (see Chairs — Victorian reproductions).
An elegant chair in which the moulded cabriole legs [...]