19th Century Armchairs

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare, highly collectable Victorian circa 1860-1880 Howard & Son's attributed library armchair whi...

In this listing you will find a gorgeous French Empire style armchair done in mahogany and upholstered in striped fabric in dusty rose and pale pink with seashell motif. The chair ha...

Italian neo-classic style 19th Century white and gold painted round back carved arm chair with front scroll design and gold damask upholstery.  

A pair of Italian Renaissance style wooden chairs from the 19th century, with solid wraparound backs, scoop motifs and lower doors. Created in It...

A beautiful and high quality pair of French early 19th century Louis XV st. giltwood armchairs. Each armchair is raised by elegant cabriole legs with lovely carved foliate designs an...

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 ...

A Nice Pair of Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Carved Wood Bergères High backs and wide seats with hand carved designed frames. Details: Height – 43 inches / 109cm Width – 25.5 in...

Exceptional mid 19th century Italian Renaissance Revival Savonarola Curule Arm Chair. Features a meticulously carved walnut frame with leather seat. The back is showcased by a winged...

A very fine pair of palatial Venetian walnut carved mid-19th century Baroque figural throne armchairs, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732). The ornately carved thrones, each flanked with figures of standing males supporting a branch-carved armrests with vines. Raised on cabriolet scrolled legs. Provenance: The Castello di Giove in Umbria, Italy, circa 1870-1880. Height: 54 1/4 inches (137.8 cm.) Width: 37 1/4 inches (94.6 cm.) Depth: 32 inches (81.3 cm.) Andrea Brustolon (20 July 1662 – 25 October 1732) was an Italian sculptor in wood. He is known for his furnishings in the Baroque style and devotional sculptures. Biography He was trained in a vigorous local tradition of sculpture in his native Belluno, in the Venetian terraferma, and in the studio of the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi, who was carrying out commissions at Padua and at Venice (1677). He spent the years 1678-80 at Rome, where the High Baroque sculpture of Bernini and his contemporaries polished his style. Apart from that, the first phase of Brustolon's working career was spent in Venice, 1680–1685. Brustolon is documented at several Venetian churches where he executed decorative carving in such profusion that he must have quickly assembled a large studio of assistants. As with his contemporary in London, Grinling Gibbons almost all the high quality robust Baroque carving in Venice has been attributed to Brustolon at one time or another. In the Venetian Ghetto, at the Scola Levantina, Brustolon provided the woodwork for the synagogue on the piano nobile, where the carved, canopied bimah is supported on Solomonic columns, which Brustolon had seen in Bernini's baldacchino in the Basilica of St Peter's. His furniture included armchairs with figural sculptures that take the place of front legs and armrest supports, inspired by his experience of Bernini's Cathedra Petri. The gueridon, a tall stand for a candelabrum, offered Brustolon unhampered possibilities for variations of the idea of a caryatid or atlas: the familiar Baroque painted and ebonized figural gueridons, endlessly reproduced since the eighteenth century, found their models in Brustolon's work. His secular commissions from Pietro Venier, of the Venier di San Vio family (a suite of forty sculptural pieces that can be seen in the Sala di Brustolon of the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice), from the Pisani of Strà, and from the Correr di San Simeone families encourage the attribution to him of some extravagantly rich undocumented moveable furniture. Andrea Brustolon's elaborate carved furniture aspired towards the condition of sculpture, such as the Dutch bases for console tables which look like enlargements of the work of the two Van Vianens, Paulus and Adam, perhaps the greatest Dutch silversmiths of the period. These carved pieces display the baroque tendency to develop a form three-dimensionally in space. Brustolon's walnut, boxwood and ebony pieces transcend ordinary functional limitations of furniture; they are constructed of elaborately carved figures. The framework of Brustolon's chairs, side tables and gueridons were carved as gnarled tree branches, with further supports of putti and male figures carved in ebony. Backrests of the chairs, which were never touched in the rigidly upright posture that contemporary etiquette demanded, were carved with allegories of vanity, fire and music, etc. The most extravagant piece delivered for Pietro Venier was a large side table and vase-stand of box and ebony, designed as a single ensemble to display rare imported Japanese porcelain vases. The eclectic allegories include Hercules with the Hydra and Cerberus, males and reclining river-gods (see ref.). For the Correr, less extrovert chairs bear female nudes extended along the armrests. For the Pisani, he carved a suite of twelve chairs (now at the Palazzo Quirinale) with flowers, fruit, leaves and branches to symbolize the twelve months of the year. Work by Brustolon is at the Villa Pisani at Stra. In 1685 Brustolon returned to the house where he was born at Belluno, and from that time devoted himself mainly to tabernacles and devotional sculptures in walnut, boxwood or ivory. His polychromed ivory Corpus from a crucifix is in the Museo Civico di Belluno, which preserves some of Brustolon's preparatory drawings for frames to be carved with putti displaying emblems. A pair of boxwood sculptures, The Sacrifice of Abraham and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel...

English Chippendale style (19th Century) mahogany dining armchair with a carved openwork back and two carved mahogany armrests ending in carved lion's faces above a red fabric uphols...

Pair of Mid-Century Thonet Style Bentwood and Cane Arm Chairs in great v8ntage condition. Measure 21" in width, 21" in depth and stand 33.5" tall. Seat height is 18" and arm height 2...

A fine pair of Neoclassical armchairs. Karelian Birch with carved details and central carved giltwood detail on the backrest.

19th century carved English oak arm chair for restoration The frame shows a few minor chips The upholstery is distressed and frayed We are off...

A French pair of Louis XVI style, carved-wood fauteuil armchairs from the early 19th century. This antique pair of armchairs from France, are hand-carved in the in the influences of ...

A very impressive large pair of Japanese carved softwood armchairs, each depicting carved exotic flowers and foliage.

An astounding 19th century French Louis XV Style pair of armchairs. These armchairs are known as “cabriolet” and feature a Romantic depiction on the backrests and beautiful floral mo...

Antique English Morris & Co. Arts And Crafts Mahogany Elbow Armchair C.1890 Attributed to Morris & Co. London, England. In very good condition commensurate of age. Easy to re-cover d...

Fine early 19th Century Geo III mahogany upholstered library chair. The arched back sweeps down to form armrests, with fluted baluster armrest supports to the front supported on squa...

A Fantastic and Quite Well Constructed 19th-Century English George III Hand-Carved Mahogany Open Armchair. The rectangular backrest has a subtly curved crest rail and is fully uphols...

Pair of unusual 19th Century Gustavian Bellman armchairs. Scraped to original colour in newly upholstered in linen, these chairs have had some minor restoration over the years.

circa 1890 Near Pair 19thC Oak Arts & Crafts Bobbin Armchairs His & Her William & Mary manner chairs. Each arm chair with bobbin turned oak backs, le...

Fine pair of Anglo-Indian carved mahogany armchairs in the English Regency taste. Front and side surfaces carved with reeded surfaces, the back curving back at the crest rail with ex...

Pair of English Georgian style mahogany armchairs with carved palmette design back on fluted legs with upholstered seat (19th century.)

English Regency mahogany tub form library style arm chair with a brown leather upholstered seat and back having brass nail head trim.

Nice pair of 19th century French Louis XVI carved and giltwood armchairs. Circa 1880. A fine addition to any home! 24W x 21D x 37H

19th Century Hall Porters Chair The chair has been upholstered in Soft Black Leather with brass studs which are used very decoratively, under the seat there is a small 2 door cupbo...

Pair of 19th Century English wingback armchairs with matching stools. Featuring tapestry covering with attractive scenery, finished on classic ball and claw legs.

An Important Pair of Empire Style Carved Giltwood Tub Chairs with Green Velvet Upholstery. The Lion Monopedia side supports feature finely carved detail and a realistic pose. These...

Early 19th century pair of mahogany upholstered Gainsborough armchairs. The square, arched and padded back above padded arms with carved acanthus motif terminals raised over cabriole...

19th century Gothic Revival painted ivory white and gold armchair.

Louis XV style living room, composed of 4 armchairs and 1 sofa. Gilded wood frame and queen-style backrest. Parisian work from the Napoleon III period, circa 1800. Dimensions: Sof...

We are delighted to offer for sale this important pair of original Victorian Klismos armchairs with hand dyed brown leather woven seats. These really are an exquisite pair of armchairs, they are pure art furniture from every angle. Starting at the top you have a Greek key carved back rails, the front arms are carved eagle heads, the seats as mentioned are veg tan hand dyed woven leather straps which make for a very comfortable and hard wearing seat. The front legs are ornately carved Lions...

Circa late 1800's, a Louis XVI Style, Medalion back armchair & matching foot stool from France. This two piece set has a fine quality of carving that makes up its LXVI details, which...

Italian Renaissance Savonarola style walnut armchair with cupids on back and lion carved arms (19th century).   

Pair of 19th century English Regency style mahogany and gilt lion armchairs with square back and red upholstery.

An exquisite pair of French Napoleon III tufted armchairs. Upholstered in a stunning vintage blue fabric, these chairs have a serious presence that...

This pair of 19th century fruitwood armchairs feature carved acanthus leaves and reeded arms.

Middle Eastern Moorish (19th Century) carved walnut Savonarola style armchair with a spindle and ball round back panel.

Pair of 19th century carved French armchairs.

English Georgian style draft arm chair upholstered in tufted green leather with hood above wings & a seat over 2 doors (late 19th/early 20th Cent) Antiqu...

A smart and extremely well made early antique Victorian leather armchair. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1840-1850 period. It is of very fine quality, it is extr...

Rare Danish art and craft armchair in nutwood and wicker with beautiful hand carved ornamentation in the image of a peacock og flowers. The chair has a...

Pair of English Regency faux painted and gilt armchairs with quatrefoil and cross hatching splat backs, scrolled arms, and terminating on faux bamboo legs. Chairs have been upholster...

A excellent quality early Victorian deep buttoned mahogany library chairs, lovely shape, in excellent overall condition. 41" high 25" wide 20" seat depth 17" seat height You are we...

A large-scaled and elegant French Louis XVI style ivory painted and parcel gilt oval back open armchair; the circular padded back with floral carved crest rail above padded arms over...

We offer you this antique armchair dating back to the mid-19th century during the Louis Louis period. The armchair is characterized by a solid walnut structure, comfortable backrest...

Decorative pair of 19th Century Italian painted armchairs. These chairs made in the Louis XVI manner, having rectangular backs with a subtle concave shaping contrasting beautifully ...

A stately 19th Century Empire Style armchair crafted from Mahogany with detailed gilt carvings and a neoclassical print green silk upholstery. Featuring a gilt sunburst and Eye of Go...

This elegant pair of antique armchairs was created in France, circa 1880. The large fauteuils with tall and rolled back, stand on turned front legs decorated with square medallions a...

Unusual Late 1800s early 1900s French antique pair of armchairs in original white paint with carved backs and beautiful curved arms and legs. They hark back to Napoleon's favorite Em...

English Regency mahogany arm chair with a sleigh back & spool design under both arms upholstered in a worn red tufted leather. Antique condition, leather is cracking/aged.

A very fine pair of Large 19th century Louis XV giltwood carved fauteuils

A pair of Italian walnut armchairs from the mid 19th century, with tapered legs and new upholstery. Created in Italy during the third ...

A fine quality William IV mahogany button back chair This is a superbly comfortable arm chair, it has a curved deeply buttoned back, the chair is...

A stunning 19th Century armchair, exquisitely made. Provenance: Boughrood Castle, Wales Designed by one of the most important 18th Century architects. Upholstered in the finest e...

Georgian Black Leather-Upholstered Wingback Armchair Leather, metal and wood. A fully restored Georgian black leather upholstered wingback ar...

Austrian Bentwood (19th Cent) unusual scroll design roll arm chair with cane panels.

Pair of Directoire-Style Armchairs, Circa 1880 – Timeless Elegance in Mahogany This stunning pair of Directoire-style armchairs, crafted around 1880, epitomizes the refined elegance...

A handsome pair of French Napoleon III armchairs from the late 19th century, offering both comfort and style in abundance. Upholstered in a stunning vintage gold fabric...

Victorian Walnut Childs Arm Chair in Red Velvet. The upholstery is fairly new with no pulls or staining. The walnut frame has age-appropriate wear and...