Posts Tagged ‘value’

William and Mary period walnut armchair - oak Queen Anne period country chair - Walnut Queen Anne period corner chair

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

William and Mary period  walnut armchair -  oak Queen Anne period country chair - Walnut Queen Anne period corner chair
An oak armchair of c.1680. Note that the stretchers also exhibit twist turning as well as all the uprights. The back carving is well executed with the top rail and front stretcher showing two cherubs supporting [...]

Antique Chair in Oak - A Charles II c.1675 oak chair - Late Seventeenth Century Country Walnut Chair

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Antique Chair in Oak - A Charles II  c.1675  oak chair - Late Seventeenth Century Country Walnut Chair
Mid-seventeenth century chair in oak, with elaborately carved back, c.1650.
The earlier seventeenth century forms of chair were not dissimilar from this, with the exception of the elaborate winged scrolls on the uprights. Earlier chairs tended to be simpler, [...]

Country Chair of c. 1800 - Regency Chair - A Regency Period Library Chair - A Gillows Chair - Balloon-Back Victorian Chair in Walnut

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Country Chair of c. 1800 -  Regency Chair - A Regency Period Library Chair - A Gillows Chair - Balloon-Back Victorian Chair in Walnut
A very simplified country chair of c. 1800. The design owes something to Sheraton in the tapering front legs and squared style of the back. The two horizontal rails are very [...]

English Country Windsor Chairs

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

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 [...]

Victorian Upholstered and Corner Chairs

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

CHAIRS: VICTORIAN UPHOLSTERED
About  1840-1900
Typical mid-Victorian lady’s drawing-room chair.
Left, a late-Victorian gentleman’s chair with scrolled arms, rounded back, straight
A’squared-up’ version 0/ the 1880’s with  machineproduced carving.
Turned legs and arm supports (the latter sometimes as a row of spindles).
CHAIRS: CORNER
Mahogany, walnut, occasionally rosewood. Stained beech and birch on later cheaper versions and for underframes. Sometimes frame of [...]

18th Century Antique English pre-Chippendale Chairs

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

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 [...]

Antique English Wainscot Chairs

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Antique English CHAIRS, WAINSCOT OR ‘COINED’, VICTORIAN WAINSCOT CHAIRS
About 1550-1660, but still made in country areas, particularly the North, until about 1750.
Before 1600 chairs were used only by the master and mistress of the house, everyone else sitting on stools, benches or settles. Although increasingly used by lesser mortals too during the 17thC, the
presence of [...]

Upholstered Chairs with Open Arms

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

CHAIRS — upholstered, with open arms
A walnut chair with shepherd’s crook arms and cabriole legs of high quality carving incorporating shell motifs; hipped to the decorated seat rail. It has ball-and-claw feet. The termination of the back legs is interestingly designed. 1720-1730
A leather-covered mahogany chair on cabriole legs with four ball-and-claw feet. Scroll and leaf [...]