19th Century Seating

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19th century Swedish canapé sofa: beautifully carved, gray painted sofa adorned with exceptional foliate motif decoration. Newly upholstered with down-wrap cushion. Note: Regional d...

***Ask About Reduced In-House Delivery Rates - Reliable Professional Service & Fully Insured*** Antique American Empire Neoclassical Greco Recamier Sofa with Scroll Form Flame Mahoga...

High back Napoleon armchair with original ebony finish over solid maple frame with handsome ball joints. New custom upholstery in thick Schumacher cotton velvet, olive in color, tri...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, recently reupholstered pair of rare circa 1830 William IV club armchairs with sublime Flamed ...

Vienna Chair, circa 1875, Jacob & Josef Kohn. Bent, turned and stained wood. Back and seat decorated with mascaroni and mythological creatures. Old label, Jacob & Josef Kohn. Wax pol...

Exquisitely carved set of six oak dining chairs with beautifully decorated straight backs, cabriole legs with escargot snail feet and newly upholstered seats. Acanthus leaves, shells...

Original from 1815, newly upholstered in luxurious Napoleon Bonaparte fabric This exclusive set, consisting of six chairs and two armchairs, is a unique example of Empire style from...

Sheriff Set in Pelle di Poltrona Moleca e Ottomana design Sergio Rodrigues 1950Struttura in legno rivestimento in pelle color cognac. Poltrona origina...

Swedish Pine Stool from the 1900s Beautiful patina and has numerous names and marks, making it a truly intriguing piece. Heigth: 36 cm/14.1 inch Depth: 22 cm/8.6 inch Width: 50 cm/...

An amazing pair of French 19th century Louis XV style painted bergère armchairs. The armchairs feature a large gracefully curved frame inset with double caned back and sides. Comfort...

A bleached oak footstool from the 19th century with hand-carved lion paw feet and zebra upholstery. This exquisite 19th-century bleached oak footstool embodies antique charm with its...

Pair of French early 19th century Directoire rare birch carved bergeres, with square back, and diamond shape over each leg. Chairs are upholstered in white fabric with black grid, do...

This 19th-century rustic three-seater bench from the Pyrenees features a stunning patina, showcasing its rich history. Its design embodies the wabi-sabi philosophy, which celebrates ...

Pair Of 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Chairs. This stunning pair of classic French Louis XVI style chairs, side chairs, armchairs or fauteuils have been professionally upholstered in a plush designer leopard print velvet. These animal print upholstered chairs...

Despite his long life, very little is known about the general production of menuisier (chairmaker) Jean-Joseph Chapuis and even less about his use of bent laminates, which must be viewed as the most advanced of its kind until the appearance of Michael Thonet’s work of the 1830s. The profound reverence for the classical world in enlightened circles in early nine-teenth-century Europe and the United States often resulted in the archaeological resurrection of the art, architecture, and design of ancient Greece and Rome. No chair employing the innovative technique of bending wood more boldly expresses this allegiance to the past than this armchair painted in le style antique and based on the ancient Roman sella curulis (folding stool); With a curved toprail decorated with putti supporting a medaillion and flanked by scrolling acanthus, the arms with ball finials, above a caned seat, on curved supports terminating in foliate gilt-metal sabots. This merger of technological innovation with fashionable aesthetics parallels the work of the American Samuel Gragg...

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, antique Colonial Rosewood Thomas Chippendale, fret work carved dining chairs Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide and covers London only for the UK and local Europe for the rest of the world, if you are outside of this area please send me your address and I will provide you with an accurate quote Where to begin, if you’re looking at this listing then the chances are you know exactly how significant this suite is, Thomas Chippendale was simply put, the most important furniture designer in history, these chairs are the only Colonial examples I have ever seen and in Rosewood no less, they weigh roughly three times more than a standard dining chair of the same style and size, they are very substantial The chairs are late 19th century circa 1880-1900, they are of course based on the original 18th century examples, the carving is exquisitely executed and the chairs look sophisticated and elegant from all angles The suite has been sympathetically restored to include a deep clean, hand condition wax and hand polish, the seat covers have been left as they are, they are ok, I can have them reupholstered for the cost price to anything the new owners wish Literature Two chairs illustrated in Tabellenbuch Holztechnik, Hamburg, 2013, p. 271. Exhibited Ten chairs on loan to Birmingham Museums circa 1985-2010 and exhibited at Aston Hall, Birmingham, where photographed in situ.. Dimensions Height:- 93cm Width:- 56cm Depth:- 53cm Seat height:- 47cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point. Lot Essay These chairs are closely related to those in two recognised Chippendale commissions: Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet for Normanton Hall, Rutland and William Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries (4th Earl of Stair, 1699-1768) for Dumfries House, Ayrshire. THE RELATED CHAIRS The chairs are of identical decoration to the set of two armchairs and ten single chairs, circa 1765, formerly at Normanton Hall (1). In 1759, Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet, succeeded to the vast inheritance established by his grandfather, also Gilbert, 1st Baronet (1652-1733), who was reputed to be ‘the richest commoner in England’ (2). The 3rd Baronet employed both Chippendale Senior and his son, Chippendale Junior, in the furnishing of his Palladian mansion, Normanton Hall in Rutland, and his London houses, 29 Grosvenor Square, London and Browne's House at North End, Fulham. Surviving Chippendale accounts, although incomplete, show that the firm was working periodically for members of the Heathcote family from 1768 to 1821. Most of the furniture listed in these accounts was intended for Browne’s House, although after 1798 when the family relinquished this residence some of the furniture was moved to Normanton Hall. The latter was sold in 1924, and any furniture not included in the Normanton Hall sale was taken to the Earl of Ancaster’s seat at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. Chippendale’s earliest invoice for Sir Gilbert Heathcote records the acquisition in 1768 of ‘6 India Back and arm chairs Japand to imitate the Bamboe’, signifying how the family embraced the highly fashionable chinoiserie taste. Although the Normanton chairs cannot be conclusively identified in the extant Chippendale accounts, their form and ornamentation led Christopher Gilbert to suggest that they were possibly by Chippendale (3). The set of four mahogany chairs at Dumfries House have nearly-identical pagoda-form cresting rails and identical terminals but differ in the arrangement of the 'Chinese' paling in the backs and side panels. Although no documentary evidence for the Dumfries chairs survives, in their execution and sophisticated carving of the toprails, they are extremely close to Chippendale’s hand. Another near-set of closely related chairs is at Saltram House, Devon, where Chippendale worked between 1771-2; these dates are based on payments in John Parker's cash account book, and probably do not reflect a true picture of the entire commission as Parker often paid tradesmen by banker's draft (4). Comprising two armchairs and seven single chairs, this set, circa 1765, is made of padouk, and has been described by the National Trust as ‘Chinese Export’ (5). The set was returned to Saltram in 1951 having been accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951). Some of the chairs are currently on display in ‘The Chinese Chippendale Bedroom’. A further set of four padouk chairs of the Saltram pattern was almost certainly at Kenwood House, London; some of these are recorded in 18th century inventories drawn up by Lord Mansfield. This set was removed to Scone Palace, Perth, prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922, and subsequently sold from ‘Scone Palace and Blairquhan: The Selected Contents of Two Great Scottish Houses’, Christie’s, London, 24 May 2007, lot 298. Another pair of padouk chairs of this model sold ‘The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller’, Christie’s, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 647 ($193,750 inc. premium). THE DESIGN Conceived in the Chinese manner expounded by William and John Halfpenny in Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1752), and Sir William Chambers in his Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils (1757), the pattern for this set of ‘Pagoda’ chairs relates to nine designs for ‘Chinese Chairs’ in the 1st edition of Chippendale’s Director (1754); the cabinet-maker describes these designs thus: Plates XXIII, XXIV and XXV are nine Chairs in the present Chinese manner, which I hope will improve that taste, or manner of work; it having yet never arrived to any perfection; doubtless it might be lost without feeling its beauty: as it admits of the greatest variety, I think it the most useful of any other. The sizes are all specified on the designs. The three last (No. XXV.) I hope will be well received, as there has been none like them yet made. The Georgian period witnessed the proliferation of such railed and pagoda-crested chairs in both the ‘picturesque’ Chinese tea pavilions of landscaped parks as well as in fashionable apartments hung with ‘India’ paper. The geometric ‘Chinese’ feet of these chairs are also found on a set of pedestals...

19th Century Italian Louis XVI Style Sofa. This unusual antique Italian Louis XVI style sofa , loveseat or canape has gorgeous exaggerated arms and is painted a gorgeous soft blue co...

A Pair of Regence Style Giltwood Fauteuils. The arched backrest above open arms with acanthus carved supports. The sprung seat above a rocaille carved seat rail and sides centred wi...

Pair of French early 19th century Louis XVI carved and painted fauteuil armchairs, with marguerite square at top of each fluted leg, upholstered in cut velvet silk, attached with uph...

Pair of armchairs with ebonized frames and upholstered seat and backrest. The armchairs have been reupholstered with a green mottled fabric.

A pair of lovely proportioned 19th century window seats. Rectangular newly reupholstered seat and hand tacked around the legs. The whole raised on six turned and fluted tapering legs...

An English bleached oak bench from the 19th century with carved wooden back, downswept arms, cabriole legs and custom cushion. This exquisite English bleached oak bench from the 19th...

An English wingback chair from the 19th century with blue fabric, turned legs in the front and saber ones in the back. This English wingback chair from the 19th century is upholstere...

French hand carved side chair in Louis XV style beautifully hand painted in light green with gilt wood accents. It is upholstered in floral silk textile and is in very good original ...

A charming late 19th century Victorian period mahogany child's rocking chair. A carved bowed crest rail of deep form with walnut inlay back support above a leather seat flanked by sm...

English windsor spindleback side chairs, 19th century (2 available).

A pair of beautifully honey colored fruitwood Biedermeier side chairs, with gently curved rectangular backs, the top and side inlaid with banding, the splat carved with a stylized flower head, on sabre legs. Newly upholstered in black Prussian horse hair fabric...

Set of 12 Antique English Burled Walnut Queen Anne Dining Chairs, Circa 1890. 10 Sidechairs: 39 1/2" High x 21 1/2" Wide x 22" Deep 2 Armchairs: 41" High x 27" Wide x 22" Deep

A Victorian button-back armchair with a generous seat and a high back. Mahogany turned front legs and splayed back legs and all raised on original brass castors. The armchair has ...

This rich and sculptural Renaissance style bench has magnificent hand carved motifs of scrolling rinceau, shields, grape clusters, rampant swans. One pair of demi-figures upholds a stepped out frieze topped by a central ceramic panel. The other pair of demi figures upholds the trunk seat...

Beautiful walnut studded bench with turned legs and casters. This chesterfield bench has been newly upholstered in rich tufted chocolate brown leather. it is in wonderful condition. ...

A beautiful large set of 10 dining chairs that originate in a Northern French monastery. The chairs were made in the finest quality European summer oak in the late 1800s. The set presented here has 10 chairs, but we have 42 pieces available. The chairs were located in the monasteries mess hall...

Period Early 19th Century Russian Giltwood and Painted Armchair or Bergere. In style of Rossi. Incredible proportion and size. Good size for modern sitting...

A very good quality mid 19th century English mahogany library armchair, in the French hepplewhite style, having central set carved cartouche to top rail over upholstered back and sea...

A fine set of eight Regency mahogany dining chairs consisting six singles and two carvers having well figured top rails with carved decoration standing on elegant sabre legs. SHIPPI...

A fine empire revival gilt-bronze mounted mahogany fauteuil. This elegant armchair has a scrolled mahogany frame with a padded upholstered back and seat, the arms put down on fine...

Rustic wooden bench or coffee table.

Carved English oak hall chair has a plank seat carved with stylized floral arabesques on the edge. A center panel is carved with framed stylized leaves. The center cartouche has a carved lion which is framed by winged gargoyles...

A pair of 19th century William IV period fine quality solid mahogany bar back side chairs with newly upholstered seats, in excellent condition. These strong chairs are designed with ...

An antique Lincoln rocker offers walnut frame with foliate carved crest over shaped and upholstered back, scroll form arms and upholstered seat, 19th ce...

A fine antique 19th century Islamic Moorish style inlaid corner chair, Damascus work from Syria, circa 1880. The corner chair is made from hardwoo...

A captivating French 19th century distressed purple velvet armchair. Crafted in 19th century France, in the distinctive Napoleon III style, this armchair is elegant and timeless. It ...

An antique set of four Hitchcock style dining chairs by Walter Smith offer gilt decorated ebonized wood construction with caned seats, signed Walter Smith, c1900 Measure - 33.5"h x1...

Ok, this is a superb frame, the frame is expertly carved and gilded in bright gold leaf that's genuine gold. The frame is substantially wider than a typical bergere chair and the fin...

A large French Louis XVI style walnut wingback bergère chair from the 19th century with carved foliage décor and old blue velvet upholstery. Introducing a French Louis XVI style berg...

Primitive Swedish Stool 1880-1920c Beautiful pearl grey patina. Wear consistent with age and use. Made out of pine and birch wood. Height: 4...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this extremely rare original Antique Regency circa 1810-1820 “Tete a Tete” Conversation couch in salmon valo...

Red lacquered square top stool on four legs joined by double box stretchers. China, 19th century.  

An antique French Louis XV style sofa offers giltwood frame with carved crest over Aubusson tapestry upholstered back and seat, covered scroll form arms and raised on cabriole legs w...

If you would like these chairs upholstered please click yes in the upholstery drop down menu. These would require 10 metres of material (5m per chair). You can supply your own or ple...

Luxurious late 19th Century Anglo-Indian ottoman heavily carved. Newly reupholstered with a gorgeous tiger fabric with tones of gold with black velvet piping. As you can see in pictu...

Explore the rare elegance of this exquisite set of 8 (6 plus 2) early 19th Century Regency mahogany dining chairs, showcasing a timeless design that reflects the sophistication of th...

19th C original painted milking stool with pencil post legs.

Antique white wicker vanity or desk chair with a skirted apron.

Six Italian Carved Walnut Chairs from the late 1800s with seat to be renewed in green velvet. The six chairs are in good joinery condition, walnut structure is solid, but they need ...

A stunning 19th century sofa or bench settee in a distressed grey painted finish. The sofa has a wide rectangular padded back with open padded arms and a generous rectangular padded...

A naive, most probably 19th-century rustic, primitive, Wabi-Sabi vintage antique stool originating from the hilltop city of Matera in Italy. The legs date from differing periods as...