Pair of Late 19th Century Curule Style Benches

Pair of late 19th century Italian benches. Cherry wood.

Elegant Neoclassical Italian bench, circa 1815, with a curulean frame and coral suede upholstery was made in the early 19th Century. A rel...

This English Country house bench is solid oak in the Classic Curule design. This window bench has a warm oak patina and rich red velvet seat. Me...

Bench, in Regency style, having a painted finish showing natural wear, its apron carved with evolute scroll, extending to its outswept arms, joined by turned stretcher, decorated wit...

Silk fabric in cerulean blue and egg-shell combines with whimsical trim that accents the deep tone wood of two curule benches in black, a pair in the neoclassical style, ebonized and upholstered in silk. The pair is American or European, late 19th/ to early 20th century. Each bench has a rectangular peaked-corner seat upholstered in a striped silk fabric with tassel trim, over an ebonized turned curule X-form base with faux gilt accents and stylized lotus carving, with a turned cross-stretcher. The inspiration for the benches reaches back to antiquity when these chairs were used and often depicted in art with a magistrate in Etruria. The curule seat, like the Roman toga, originated in Etruria, and it has been used on surviving Etruscan monuments. However, the curule bench reaches back even farther as a design accessory for the Egyptians. The fabric is in very good vntage condition, but there is the lightest discoloration on close examiation in areas of the white stripe...

A pair of late 19th century English Chippendale mahogany stools covered in an animal print. Nicely carved acanthus knees ending in ball and ...

Beautiful and charming Louis XV style bench. Looks as though it is standing on its tip toes. Carved , and polychromed frame with the perfect amount of wear make this so very BOHO chic. Upholstered with hair on cow hide and antique brass tacks...

An incredible 19th century Italian wrought iron folding Curule stool with a hand-stitched saddle leather seat, rings on the ends, and decorative stars where the legs cross on both si...

19th century oak bench from England with a braided leather seat which has decorative brass tacks, over hand turned barley twist legs, joined by stretchers and raised on hand turned b...

Pair of Maison Jansen style Curule benches with a painted white metal frame and cognac vinyl seats.