Mid-19th Century Chairs

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original solid Walnut hand-carved in the Gothic Pugin steeple manor Victorian Museum double sided gal...

Unique, crudely handcrafted farm chairs, one baring the "VR" and crown stamp of Queen Victoria (May 1819 –January 1901) of England. Each retains it's ant...

A fine neoclassical armchair. Mahogany with patinated brass inlay, details and sabots.

Decorate a hallway with this well carved pair of antique Sgabello chairs. Crafted of walnut in Italy circa 1860, each Renaissance chair stands on curv...

These chairs were commissioned for a representative of a colonial settlement In Indie or in Ceylon (so not in the Dutch East Indies although one should not rule out this possibility!...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning 100% period correct William IV circa 1835 mahogany reclining library reading armchair with built in footrest This chair...

We are delighted to this stunning suite of six fully restored early Victorian circa 1840 mahogany framed brown leather dining chairs These are a very fine, highly decorative and e...

Antique Biedermeier Style Carved and Inlaid Silk Upholstered Armchair This exquisite antique Austrian Biedermeier style armchair is a beautifully crafted and hand-carved piece. It h...

Mahogany barber's or dentist's chair with single back splat and two smaller side splats with heart shape cut-outs and hand woven cane seat. The sturdy scrolling arms curving around, ...

19Thc New England ladder back arm chair with hand woven seat.This chair has most unusual cut outs and wonderful aged patina.

With its strong lines and upright stature, this imposing piece of furniture was the chair of choice for a 19th-century administrator in northern China. Known as guanmaoyi or official...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare circa 1850 hand made in Venice Italy carved Fruitwood rocking armchair depicting Sea horses, Cherubs, and gothic gargoyles...

19th Century English Throne Chair. It is 28" wide x 81" high and 17" deep. Heavily carved chair. Missing its fretwork on top of the chair. There ...

Set of 4 Victorian Heraldic Crested Chairs – Circa 1850 This set of four Victorian chairs, crafted circa 1850, features intricately carved wooden frames with British Isle crests at ...

American Victorian mahogany arm chair with winged griffin arms and blue and grey striped upholstery. Condition consistent with age of piece

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of original Antique Victorian circa 1840-1860 Chesterfield Window conversation seats with...

Fantastic rosewood framed armchair in original leather with deep buttoned and exposed back. Fabulous quality and design.

Early model of chair created by thonet in 1851 for first international exposition of London. This example shows some differences with the 2 chairs on catalogue and is a mixed betwee...

Large 19th century iron and brass Campaign chair, continental, circa 1850.

Swiss alp Folk Art escabelle from Gstaad village.

Add an air of regal charm to your interior with this stunning set of French Rococo Revival chairs — an exquisite blend of craftsmanship, comfort, and decorative artistry. Set includ...

Set of Biedermeier chairs, six pieces Completely restored, new fabric and upholstery included. Shellac-polish.   

Prior to the 10th century, Chinese society eschewed raised seats in favor of mats. The rising popularity of chairs and other forms of elevated seating led craftsmen to adapt traditio...

Pair of carved wood gilt oval back arm chairs with intertwined articulated floral motif, and terminating on floral corner medallions with fluted bu...

Arts and Crafts Carved Barrel Back Hall or Library Chairs This is a Beautifully designed pair of Library or Hall chairs from the 19th Century Arts and Crafts movement Pugin inspired ...

This 19th-century Chinese accent chair is masterfully carved from wood, showcasing beautiful clean lines and a soft rustic patina. Its graceful and sculptural form makes it a captiva...

Set of 8 (6 sides, 2 armchairs) Hepplewhite style hand carved solid mahogany dining chairs, with rounded crestrail and handsome hand carved and pierced central splat. Superb hand car...

An English oak hall chair from the mid-19th century, with pierced back, carved letters and wooden seat. Created in England during the 1850s, thi...

Shipping to any US port only for $290 USD Set of Biedermeier chairs, four pieces. Completely restored, new fabric and upholstery included. Source: Czechia (Bohemia) Period: 18340-18...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Royal Estate stamped oxblood leather and oak circa 1840 throne armchair A very good looking w...

We are delighted to offer for sale this truly sublime, high Victorian Burr Walnut occasional chair with truly exquisite Royal Coat of Arms Armorial crest embroidered seat and back re...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning pair of original, hand carved in solid walnut, Italian high back throne chairs . Th...

Pair of antique William IV walnut balloon back chairs, England, circa 1835. Presented in good antique condition commensurate of age.   

These two mahogany armchairs, upholstered in sleek black fabric, date back to the elegant era of the 1860s. Their timeless design and classic upholstery make them a sophisticated add...

A pair of Late Empire birch armchairs, upholstered in red fabric and from around the 1840s, make a beautiful and period feature in any interior with their...

Exceptional set of four 1840’s paint decorated and stenciled rush seat chairs in completely original condition. All chairs are tight and solid and all of the rush seats are in great condition. No damage old breaks or repairs whatsoever on any of these chairs. Original dry crusty surface and beautifully paint decorated. A great piece of early American chairs...

Pair of Biedermeier dining chairs made in Czechia circa 1830s. Restored by our team. Made out of Cherry wood and fabric, very high quality materials.

A Victorian blue leather oak library chair, the arched back continuous with the scroll arms, and carved with beribboned foliate sprays in the centre, the shaped seat rail set above t...

Gorgeous hardwood finely carved Burmese chair on cabrio legs Circa 1840 Details to carving are incredibly intricate, definitely the work of a skil...

With shaped ladder back with down scrolled arms and X form legs. From a Bellevue Ave Newport family.

A set of six Gustavian chairs, Sweden, 1830, birch veneer. The chairs are in good original condition. The chairs will be shipped from Germany. Th...

French Baroque style hand carved fruit wood armchair with typical neoclassical rock and plant decorations, gold leaf gilded and painted over in additi...

Two elegant antique chairs from France in Louis XVI style, circa 1860. These chairs are made of solid painted wood with curved frame and legs and have been reupholstered with a beige...

Swiss alp , folk art ,escabelle.

Very elegant set of 4 Biedermeier chairs from southern Germany around 1830. Cherry wood veneered and solid. Ebonized back decoration in the shape of a lyre, a very classicist motif. ...

Prior to the 10th century, Chinese society eschewed raised seats in favor of mats. The rising popularity of chairs and other forms of elevated seating led craftsmen to adapt traditional cabinetry and architecture techniques to the human body. In the case of this Yuanyi, or round chair, the flowing crestrail is a direct descendant of the simple armrests that had traditionally supported individuals on mats in their homes. This homage to an ancestral form, combined with traditional mortise-and-Tenon joinery techniques, created an elegant, functional chair that has endured for centuries and inspired many contemporary furniture designers...

Elegant 19th century Scandinavian Art Nouveau armchair in solid stained oak upholstered in premium boucle fabric. Despite its age, this armchair is in remarkable condition, a testa...

Armchair Captain's chair black Swedish 19th century Sweden. An armchair made during the end of 19th century. Painted in our signature Laserow Black.

2 original Napoleon III ebonized chairs, France, 1850s.

2 original Napoleon III ebonised chairs, France, 1850s wear and lack of gilding.

1870s French Louis XVI style white lacquered and velvet upholstered armchair.             

Here we Have a Quality Set of 8 Early Victorian Mahogany Balloon Back Dining Chairs Made From Quality Timber. Circa 1850 The Front Legs Being of a Ring Turned and Fluted Form, The Ba...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely, antique, fully restored original mahogany framed circa 1830 hand dyed Chesterfield Bordeaux leather director's chair. Please note t...

COD-517 Beautiful Gothic Revival armchair in ebonized oak wood, north Europe, 1860's.

French low seated hand carved chair painted in light beige with elegant decoration in red upholstery and in great condition. Late 19th century.  

This rare 19th-century Italian chair, crafted from ebonised wood, is a stunning example of Grand Tour military trophy design. The chair is adorned with intricate, crisp, and well-def...

Elegant French mahogany hand carved curule stool with four swan's heads decorating the armrests. It is made in Empire style and is with the original upholstery in red and yellow in q...