Early 19th Century Seating

An interesting early 19th century slipper chair of small proportions, retaining original needlework upholstery, English, circa 1835. The chair p...

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...

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 Set Of Eight Early 19th Century, Georgian, Regency Mahogany Dining Chairs, Consisting Of Six Singles And Two Armchairs, Having Well Figured Rectangular Top Rails ...

A French Louis XVI period finely carved walnut armchair with oval back and burnout damask upholstery & trimmed with Samuel & Sons silk gimp. The chair is raised on four tapered carve...

A set of four Biedermeier chairs, Switzerland, 1820-1830, walnut veneer. Beautiful back with a “Pretzel”decor and a beautiful carving on the top of the chair. The chairs are in good ...

Italian Empire Style bergère or tub chair, gray-painted with barrel-back molded crest rail above upholstered back, arms, and seat with drop in cushion upholstered in a white linen weave...

Classic upholstered Biedermeier chair. The chair dates from the Biedermeier period, circa 1815 and is newly upholstered in the traditional style with straps and springs. The chair is...

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...

A British 1830's William IV polished antique brown leather chesterfield backed mahogany library armchair with brass stud detailing on brass castors. .

Having round upholstered seats atop conforming frames raised on solid walnut flared tapering legs

Exquisite Pair of 19th Century Antique Ebonised Chinoiserie Chairs with Cane Seats Indulge in the timeless elegance of these stunning 19th century antique ebonised chinoiserie chairs...

A windsor comb back armchair with a striking, comfortable rake and a curved bow back, having a decoratively shaped top rail over long spindles, a curved continuous arm with great wea...

A fine set of 8 Georgian Hepplewhite style carved mahogany shield back dining chairs of good colour and condition. With serpentine fronts, drop in upholstered seats, affording comfor...

A fine example of an English oak and yew wood hoop back style armchair. England, circa 1825-1850. In excellent condition, sturdy and sound.

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, antique Colonial Gillows of Lancaster Attributed solid Rosewood dining chairs with ornately carved back splats 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, Gillows of Lancaster & London was simply put, one of the most important furniture designers in the history of England, 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 early 19th century circa 1810-1820, 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 fine, the timber has a wonderfully aged patina that is honestly sublime Dimensions Height:- 81cm Width:- 45cm Depth:- 50cm Seat height:- 44cm 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...

This is a superb example of the neoclassical daybed or recamier that dates to the Swedish Biedermeier Period. The recamier is in overall very good condition. It is upholstered in a n...

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...

A large and fine pair of rosewood Regency armchairs, each with square backs and shell and scroll carved cresting rail, scrolling lion’s head arm supports and turned, gadrooned legs, ...

A very fine and elegant Regency period set of eight 'Klismos' chairs after designs by Thomas Hope, the manufacture attributed to Gillows. England, circa 1810. Ready for placement an...

Caned seat and back Faux bamboo legs

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...

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...

Each chair having a shaped and open splat backrest and a drop in rush seat, two of the rush seats older than the others, the round seats are raised on flared square tapering legs

Hello, This exceptional pair of Viennese upholstered Biedermeier bergeres from c. 1825 are distinguished by their sophisticated proportions, rare and refined design and excellent cra...

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

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...

A Set of Eight Regency Polychrome-Painted And Parcel-Gilt Dining Chairs. In the manner of John Gee. Comprising a pair of open armchairs and six side chairs. Each with cream painted ...

Biedermeier armchair from southern Germany around 1830. Elegant shape with slightly curved square-tapered legs and spiral armrests. Solid beech wood. Restored and hand-polished with ...

Beautiful quality antique Victorian carved walnut ladies chair, having a quality carved walnut shaped back with beautiful floral and scroll detail, a newly reupholstered seat and bac...

An antique set of six Italian dining room, side chairs made of hand crafted painted Pinewood, patinated in light grey in the late Neoclassical style with scrolled back rest and beaut...

Elegant small bench in solid walnut with four curved legs and externally curved padded armrests. The seat is comfortable and padded like the armrests. The armrests and seat are finis...

Set of 4 French chairs and 2 armchairs in the Médaillon Louis 16 style, few marks of use. Solid and sound Good condition. The set can be separated, please ask. Shipping : Chaises : 6...

This is an antique X-frame stool. An English, walnut and needlepoint footstool, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820. Utterly beguiling Regency craftsmanship with a beautiful s...

A set of four vernacular ash and elm framed chairs, thick nutty colour to frame, rush seats, crooked legs and bar backs. English, c1800

A handsome Georgian arched back farmhouse settle of exceptional colour. The gently bowed high back mounted with a canopy board across the top, the two plank seat sweeping from arm to...

A rare and exceptional English Regency mahogany hall bench in the manner of Tatham & Marsh. This bench is a fine example of English furniture of this period with its classic Roman ar...

***Ask About Reduced In-House Delivery Rates - Reliable Professional Service & Fully Insured*** An antique American Empire Greco upholstered sofa offers walnut and burl construction ...

19th Century set of eighteen Regency mahogany sabre leg dining chairs with buttoned black leather seats. The reeded panel backs above a central rope twist back rail, and all chairs c...

This charming mid-19th century English low back Windsor chair is a true gem of antique craftsmanship. The chair's distinctive bent yew wood crest rail, gracefully curved and supporte...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, fully restored, hand dyed, very rare George III circa 1820 Wingback armchair Please note the...

A pair of Italian early 19th Century Empire dining chairs in solid walnut. This Tuscan pair of chairs, with swan decoration on the back, was likely crafted in the city of Lucca. This...

A very fine pair of Irish Regency mahogany Neo-Grecian hall chairs , with bowed tablet cresting, and conjoined c-scroll splat backs upholstered seats on ribbed sabre legs. Circa 182...

Classic, elegant set of four antique Biedermeier shovel chairs in walnut from Austria around 1830. Walnut book-matched veneered and solid walnut. Original spirals painted with ink on...

A good set of antique ash spindle back side chairs. Very solidly built in the traditional way. Handsome profiles and good and heavy. Perfect around a farmhouse table! Solid in join...

Swedish early 19th century Gustavian painted sofa circa 1810. Stunning sofa in original paint.  This would have been a day bed with a pull out section to the front, but it has since...

Fine ebonized Austrian Empire recamiere. Ebonized wood featuring elegantly curved sides and four highly detailed carved lions paw feet with giltwood accents.This fully restored large...

Elegant Empire Period black lacquered walnut chaise or daybed with brass ormolu decoration. Has its original horsehair mattress. Sturdy and sound, b...

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 ...

Set of six Biedermeier side chairs made of mahogany with elegantly curved sabre legs, straight frames and upholstered seats. The lower half of the backrest is fitted with ebonized C-...

19th century monoxylite throne chair, exuding an unparalleled sense of craftsmanship, reflecting the passion and skill of its makers. This chair is an exceptional piece of history, m...

A delightful set of 4 English oak side chairs with solid seats. Lovely dark finish with good grain. Made of oak and elm. Stretchers add support. Playful orbs decorate the back splat....

This is a rare example of an English Combination Lidded Foot Stool complete with an integral box or sewing box, hardwood with inlaid detail and dating to the early 19th century, Will...

Authentic and completely original early 19th century elm wood milking stool with ash wood legs; hand carved and maintaining the original surface with a lovely patina and finish; no r...

An early 19th century primitive mountain bench constructed from a single plank of richly patinated oak. Retaining its original whittled and attractively splayed legs, with characterf...

An antique early 19th Century circa 1820's rustic bench hand made from a thick, oversized slab of wood with hand carved and joined splayed legs that run through the seat. The bench s...

A whimsical fantasy hand carved chair by the great Venetian craftsman of the era. This lovely piece features an unique seahorse carved back and scallop shell seat retaining much of i...

England circa 1820 Antique buttonback armchair frame, newly upholstered in Bichon orange fleece by Rosemary Hallgarten. 31”w x 27”d x 42.5”h x 22”seat