19th Century Armchairs

Pair of 19th century Louis XV style giltwood armchairs newly upholstered in a creamy ecru velvet with nailhead detail. Also available C.O.M.    

These are a very elegant pair of French Napoleon III armchairs. The design is a classic shape with the crimped pie crust edge that looks fabulous upholstered. Neatly proportioned cha...

French Louis XV style cane seat accent armchair with upholstered arm and back and loose feather down stuffed seat cushion. Newly reupholstered in an animal print fabric by Kravet. This beautifully carved wood Fauteuil chair was restored in 1955 by a New York City antique...

Two Chinese Qing Dynasty period carved wooden armchairs from the 19th century with hand-carved medallion, priced and sold each. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty period, each chair features a carved splat adorned with a hand-carved oval medallion depicting a peony and a bird, perhaps a crane, among openwork foliages. These auspicious patterns are surmounted by a jewelry-like motif. The chairs follow the Chinese tradition with a carved wooden base and a woven rattan seat and are strengthened with side stretchers. Thanks to their elegant carvings, these two Chinese 19th century antique chairs with hand-carved medallions...

Pair of fine side chairs with brown velvet seats, the backrest with carved shell flanked by relief C-scrolls. The chairs with full length arm rests terminating with a large carved sc...

19th century french carved walnut tapestry armchairs circa 1870. Fine quality pair of french carved armchairs, with fine craftmanship shown in the quality of the carving. Heavily c...

Pair of French Louis XV armchairs with stunning original blue mohair upholstery with brass tack beading, sculpted from fine walnut, and featuring exquisitely formed frameworks with s...

A delightful early Howard & Sons tub chair. C.1850. Professionally and traditionally upholstered in a blue Howard and Sons cotton fabric, the exact specification of the original fou...

Very nice bergere armchair from the Louis-Philippe period, in the Louis XV style. Large comfortable but elegant armchair. The seat and back are well padded (as well as the armrests) to give it a very comfortable and soft seat. The legs are curved, the wood is solid and upholstery nails run through the bottom of the seat and the left and right sides of the armrests. This armchair is upholstered with a fine cream-coloured tapestry with vegetal and floral motifs, bunches of grapes, knots and foliage. The tapestry presents a fine and delicate decoration in light tones. Note: the upholstery has some marks of time (wear or tears) (especially on the edges of the armrests) France - circa 1800 The Louis XIV style is a furnishing style covering more or less the period of the reign of Louis XIV (1661 to 1715). This style is characterized by the majesty and richness of its furnishings. The Louis XIV style follows the Louis XIII style. The furniture is increasingly luxurious, but unlike previous styles, it is almost no longer inspired by architecture. There are two kinds of furniture: ceremonial furniture richly decorated with veneers and inlays (especially with André-Charles Boulle), solid gilt wood and bourgeois furniture in solid wood. The style is characterized above all by its absolute symmetry and an important and ostentatious dimension. The Louis XIV style is of Italian and ancient inspiration. The style emerged with the advent of the reign of Louis XIV in 1661 and lasted until the end of the 17th century. In 1690, on the death of Lebrun, decorator to the King, the style declined and was gradually replaced by the Regency style. The Palace of Versailles is obviously extremely and lastingly marked by the Louis XIV style. His long reign made it possible to impose the unique style of the Grand...

Pair of 19th century oak and leather armchairs circa 1890. Good quality pair of show frame wing back armchairs.  Complete with original brown leather which still shows traces of an ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely original Victorian armchair with period Porcelain castors in Calico upholstery in the style of H...

A large Victorian late 19th century Library chair, newly re upholstered in Velvet. The new fabric copying the original fabric design on the ...

A 19th century French Napoleon III square back armchair with a tall back and a wide generous seat. The beech frame is raised on turned walnut legs. The armchair has been fully rest...

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...

Discover the elegance and historical charm of this Directoire armchair, originating from France around 1800. This piece showcases a meticulously carved walnut frame, reflecting the r...

A pair of antique Chinese armchairs crafted from rosewood, possibly Huanghuali rosewood, circa Late 19th century. The back is decorat...

A very fine and impressive European walnut monopodia library armchair, upholstered in a Rosie Uniacke cotton velvet moss, an almost identical armchair having been published in ‘Engli...

A pair of French Louis XIII style wooden os de mouton armchairs from the 19th century, with slanted camelbacks, large scrolling arms, cross stretchers and used upholstery. Created in...

Beautiful example of 19th c. Kochs barber chair. This chair is in good functional condition and shows minor wear and patina indicative of its age. ...

Swiss alp pair of armchairs

European entry throne chair with Ikat designer fabric, antique brass nail head detail & blanched hardwood in a natural finish.

Step into the refined beauty of the 19th century with this exquisite golden oak armchair, a true testament to the elegance and craftsmanship of its era. Crafted in 1860, this armchai...

A beautiful bench in rustic style from the beginning of the 19th century, probably from the Aragon area, the backrest has a profusely decorated hand-painted backrest, garlands of flo...

Liberty & Co. A Moorish walnut armchair with fretwork cut-outs to the arched top and Mashrabiya turned details throughout. The last two images from: Liberty's Furniture 1875 - 1915....

Design created by Otto Wagner (1841-1918) and manufactured by Jacob & Josef Kohn Manufactory. Beechwood / mahogany stained / brass / seat covered with new fabric and horizontal brass...

Handsome near pair of Empire style open-arm chairs with square backs and fluted, carved arm supports. Upholstered in vintage striped velvet, each chair features detailed hand-carving...

A nice pair of 19th century Swedish Neoclassical armchairs in simple, elecant classical form, minimal carvings re-upholstered in green velvet. Arm hight 23.50" Seat hight 16" Seat si...

Nicely carved with lion of St Marks on top of back. Saddle seat with arms with animal head terminals. Four curved legs with stretchers.

This is a gorgeous pair of John Jelliff figural carved walnut Renaissance Revival parlor or armchairs. The chairs are in good condition and feature exceptionally carved Jenny Lind fa...

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...

Early and rare fireside chair pair, possibly Dutch. Tall backed chairs with short wings upholstered overall in brown leather, now time worn to a fi...

English Regency period ram’s horn arm chair on sabre legs. The chair back has a rectangular concave crest rail morticed between the upper leg posts and...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning fully restored hand dyed Cigar brown leather, period Regency Chesterfield Library armchair complete with original mahogany...

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.

Diminutive Antique English 19th Century Upholstered Armchair C.1820 Traditionally upholstered and covered in a classic English country house fabric. Neatly proportioned. Presented ...

A beautiful and high quality set of four French early 19th century Louis XV st. giltwood and tapestry armchairs. Each armchair is raised by elegant cabriole legs with lovely carved f...

19th century Spanish colonial altar armchairs with red velvet seat and back with ornamental carved on the back and beautiful legs and armchairs. There are a very resistant and heavy...

A Pair of Elegant Empire Armchairs with Beautifully Preserved Patina. This pair of Empire armchairs is crafted from solid birch, featuring rectangular inlays in darker mahogany on t...

English fauteuil, open armchairs side or desk chair in the Victorian style. Walnut and upholstery. The fabric can be change, or needs to be repared. The ornamentation of this armchai...

An elegant antique armchair from France, circa 1860. Made of solid walnut painted in beige with curved legs and back, upholstered with a cotton fabric in stripes. Very comfortable an...

Pair of Antique French carved walnut sage & Ivory upholstered armchairs, Circa 1860. These nicely carved armchairs would fit in a traditional or contemporary setting.

Impressive rare pair of throne chairs in perfect Italian Renaissance style, late 19th century. Made of solid walnut wood. The finely carved wooden backrest with very complex decorati...

19th century walnut Spanish colonial altar armchairs with leather back and seat The unusual size of the arms complete this exceptional pair of armchairs Measures: Height to arms 23.8...

circa 1880 Pair 19thC English Oak Bobbin Corner Chairs Price for the pair sku 1981 W43 x D43 x H66 cm Seat height 37 cm Weight 5 kg

Exceptional pair of 19th century French Louis XVI style painted fauteuils. The chairs have Greek inspired geometrical fluted legs which continue in the upper back part of the frames...

Liberty and Co attributed, in the style of a Morris and Co Sussex armchair. An Aesthetic Movement rush seat armchair with incised turnings to the back and below the arms with elegant...

Pair Antique French Carved and Gilded Walnut Armchairs, Circa 1890. Beautifully Sculpted and Gilded.

"Set of 4 French Louis XVI style walnut arm chairs with striped upholstered seat and back. (19/20th Cent.) Antique condition."

This pair of 19th-century French oak armchairs exudes timeless elegance with intricate craftsmanship. The graceful, swirling designs on the open backrests create a focal point, while...

Rustic Continental (19th Century) horn design large arm chair with head rest and leopard upholstered seat and back. Some wear on front facing se...

A pair of Swedish Gustavian style painted wood tub chairs from the late 19th century, with curving backs, carved campanula friezes and waterleaf motifs. Created in Sweden during the last decade of the 19th century, each of this pair of tub chairs captures our attention with its Neoclassical lines and delicately carved motifs. A curving back comes to rest on a rectangular seat which is ready, like the back for reupholstery. The apron is adorned with a delicate campanula frieze running on three sides. Each chair is raised on two cylindrical tapering legs in the front, carved with waterleaves and two saber legs in the back. They are all accented with carved rosettes on the knees and are painted in a soft color typical of the Swedish taste for light palettes aiming at brightening the rooms during the dark winters of Scandinavia. The Gustavian style takes its roots in the Louis XVI era. Swedish King Gustav III resided in 1771 in Paris, at the beginning stages of the Louis XVI style. There, he was inspired by French art and fashion. With that in his luggage, he had a strong desire to introduce something similar in Sweden. The country had fine craftsmen with high quality craftsmanship, who produced a simple style with harmonious aesthetics. The Gustavian style was born and has been in vogue ever since. It is incredibly popular, especially in England but also in France and in the USA. With their elegant Gustavian style lines and skillfully carved motifs, this pair of Swedish tub...

A Georgian black leather-upholstered wingback armchair outlined with a close nail trim and raised on cabriole legs terminating in scrolled feet.

Elegant Matching Pair of Empire Design Bergere Arm Chairs With Scroll Backs Upholstered in Cream Damask. Perfect For Any Library, Study or Lounge Space. Height to arms 67.5cm Height...

Good 19th century Gainsborough armchair in mahogany with new crimson linnen upholstery. This type of chair was named after the famous painter Tho...

This pair of French Restauration period walnut armchairs from the early nineteenth century features scrolling arms and gently curved legs. The back legs are flared "en sabres", or li...

Armchair French giltwood Rococo style France. An armchair made during the 19th century in France. Frame of giltwood with beautiful carvings. Contempora...

19thc French Antique Louis XV style Carved Wood Rococo Armchair. Very nicely carved. Romantic scene aupholstery.

Slightly oversized, this solid birch armchair with straight back splats and crest, was part of a "Herr Rum", a gentleman's office suite, which usually comprised a similarly designed ...