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Antique Dealers: Antique Chairs
An
Antique Chair happens to be one of the most common
items in the antique world. In almost all styles of
chairs, the distinctive feature which determines the
style is the form of the back. In chairs of the Chippendale
style, the distinctive feature is the form of the
top rail. The back of the chair may be splat of various
degrees of intricacy, or ladder-back. The leg may
be cabriole with claw-and-ball foot; or chamfered
and molded square leg or the heavy, straight, grooved
leg known as Marlborough.
Whereas
the Hepplewhite chair had a curved back, the Sheraton
style chair had a square or rectangular back with
its crossbar just above the seat. The back, itself,
showed either a central splat or a number of banisters
of various sizes and shapes. Legs were tapered or
turned and reeded.
The
designs within the backs of the shield back chairs
are of two general types; a. splat, not too unlike
the splats in Chippendale style chairs; b. a series
of three, four, or five uprights, called banisters
or bars, which extend from the bottom of the back
upward to the top. There are variations from these
two general styles.
Thus
antique chairs can be categorized by various parameters
and they are priceless in the world of antiques &
collectibles.
Set
of four Louis XV period, caned and painted chaises
Set of four Louis XV period, caned and painted chaises
Each chair stamped M. Gourdin. Michel Gourdin Maître
in 1752. Mid-18th century.
Set
of eight Louis XV style, cream painted dining chairs
19th century. Two armchairs and six sidechairs.
Vrigny
Antique Furniture
Vrigny H 94 cm - L 67 cm Style: Regency Beech
Antique
Boat Chair
Turned from old sampan into a new item, bench for
family. The teak wood ia long lasting and never ..
Pair
of Empire Side Chairs
With Carved Mid Rails & Turned Legs
Victorian
Chair
From the late 1800's
Queen
Anne Chairs
ANTIQUE QUEEN ANNE CHAIRS - 1700 - 1730
A
highly distinctive style, actually extending well
beyond Queen Anne's reign.
Country
Windsor Chairs
ANTIQUE COUNTRY WINDSOR CHAIRS - 1700 to PRESENT
Made
from the early-18thC onwards by wood "I turners
or 'bodgers' setting up temporary workshops in woodland
areas. Although made in many parts of the country
- hence enormous I regional differences in detail
- High Wycombe ill Buckinghamshire became, and has
remained, the entre of the industry. Since the late-19thC,
Windsors and their variants have been mass produced
there by machine...
Chippendale
Chairs
ANTIQUE CHIPPENDALE CHAIRS - 1750 - 1780
Thomas
Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director,
published in three editions (1754,1755 and 1762) had
a historic influence on mid-18thC chair design. In
it, Chippendale applied popular rococo and Gothic
design motif to already fashionable shapes for both
grand and simple household furniture. Few designs
were copied precisely. Chair makers at all levels
London, provincial and country - adapted and modified
their designs to suit their own capabilities to their
clients' tastes and pockets...
Country
Ladder & Spindle Back Chairs
ANTIQUE COUNTRY LADDER AND SPINDLE BACK CHAIRS - 1700
- 1939
COUNTRY
LADDER 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
onwards the style appeared in more sophisticated interiors
than previously. Between the wars many authentic reproductions
were made of both spindle. and ladder backs; if well
worn these are difficult to identify and many are
sold with an earlier date...
Regency
Chairs
ANTIQUE REGENCY CHAIRS - 1800 - 1840
Usually
very elegant chairs, some based on previous Sheraton
types, but many inspired by Ancient Greek klismos
chairs, with their distinctive sabre legs. Nelson's
naval victories resulted in the inclusion of many
naval emblems in furniture design after 1803, and
in chairs is apparent in back supports carved as twisted
rope. This has earned all sabre-leg chairs of Regency
date the popular name' 'Trafalgars' though correctly
this only refers to those with rope designs.
