Set of Eight French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Patinated Dining Chairs

A beautiful and rare set of eight French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated wood dining chairs. Each chair is raised by circular fluted tapered legs with topie shaped feet and fine...

An elegant and most attractive set of eight French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated wood dining chairs. Each chair is raised by fine circular tapered fluted legs with lovely topi...

An elegant and complete set of eight French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated dining chairs. Each arm chair is raised by fine and uniquely shaped circular fluted legs below carved...

A very attractive French early 19th century Louis XVI st. set of twelve patinated dining chairs. Each chair is raised by circular tapered legs with a twisted reeded design and acanth...

An elegant and most decorative complete set of eight French 19th century Louis XV st. patinated dining chairs. Each patinated off white chair is raised...

An elegant and very unique complete set of eight French 19th century Directoire st. patinated wood dining chairs. Each chair is raised by lovely turned circular legs at the front wit...

Classic set of 19th century French dining chairs crafted from mahogany. The set consists of two armchairs and two side chairs the lat...

Set of six 19th century French Louis XVI carved dining chairs with original needlepoint are amazing works of the sculptor's and cabinetmaker's arts! Each chair was hand-carved from solid, dense old-growth oak in breathtaking and lifelike full relief. Starting with the elegant oval seat back frame, it has been topped with a crest motif surrounded by foliate scrolls and bursting with a fruit display...

These exquisite French 19th century Louis XVI style dining armchairs are handmade and carved in Italy. The carvings of the ar...

Set of Four 19th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Chairs is truly a timeless classic! Featuring curved oval seatbacks and generous seats, the set...

A set of eight mahogany dining chairs in the Queen Anne style, consisting of six side chairs and two armchairs, the shaped central splat back with carved shell decoration flanked by ...

A superb quality set of eight dining chairs, after late 18th century designs by Gillows of Lancaster and London, the manufacture attributable to Gillow & Co. A pair of armchairs en-suite is available separately. English, circa 1880 Why we like them Wonderfully elegant model, looking very delicate but in fact unusually strong - the sign of a skilled craftsman. Interestingly, identical chairs can be seen on a painting by Walter Dendy Sadler (British, 1854-1923), The After Lunch Conversation, 1889, sold at Doyle, New York, 21 May 2024, lot 83. Design These chairs correspond to Gillows’ 'Garforth pattern', which first appeared in 1795 and was probably an adaptation of Georges Jacob's design of circa 1792 for Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet. Gillows made the chairs not only in mahogany but also japanned and they appear to have been particularly popular among the genteel, professional and merchant classes in the north of England. In 1796 the Earl of Strafford purchased six white and green japanned chairs for Wentworth Woodhouse, and Sir William Gerard ordered thirty-six mahogany chairs for Garswood New Hall, Lancashire. While the design featured a round or 'compass-fronted' seat (see the set of twelve sold anonymously, Christie’s, London, 29 April 2010, lot 86, £46,850 including premium) they were also made with a more conventional square seat. A set of fourteen chairs of this pattern with square seats are illustrated in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, Woodbridge, 2008, p. 195, pl. 166. The design was adopted by the influential architect/designer Sir John Soane (d. 1837). He commissioned the set of twenty 'mahogany trellis chairs' for the Governor’s Room at The Bank, supplied in 1809 by the cabinet-maker David Bruce (d. 1823) of Aldersgate Street, London (see M. Jourdain, 'Early 19th-Century Furniture at the Bank of England’, Country Life, 3 October 1947, p. 676, fig. 2). Soane owned a pair of armchairs of the Bank design at his own home at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, now the Soane Museum, and adapted the design for a set of dining-chairs supplied by John Robins in 1821. Robins' invoice described these as 'trellis back chairs...