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Antique Chairs

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.