Victorian Chairs

Gorgeous pair of Victorian arm chairs with distinctive balloon backs Circa 1880 on this classic pair of Victorian saloon chairs Would be a his and...

This is an antique Glastonbury chair. A Welsh, oak ecclesiastical elbow seat with Gothic overtones, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880. A classic provincial example of...

We are delighted to offer for sale this once in a lifetime opportunity to own, very rare original near pair of Howard & Son's Berners street armchairs in the original distressed ticking fabric...

For FULL item description be sure to click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this listing. Antique 1800's Victorian Balloon Back Parlor Carv...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely early Victorian mahogany hand carved library reading armchair which is part of a suite This ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptional set of six French oak with Embossed pressed brown leather upholster Henry II circa 1880 dining chairs with bronze dolphin handles A very rare and totally original set of Victorian dining chairs...

We are delighted to offer for sale this Hepplewhite writing armchair on delicate legs. The armchair features an elbow shape arm rest, along with bells splat design at the back. Si...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Vintage distressed brown leather chesterfield club tub armchairs. A gorgeous pair with buttoned buttons, typical chesterfiel...

American Victorian Gothic Revival mahogany arm chair with ogee arched back & green striped seat. (late 19th Cent)

This is a very good example of a late Victorian wicker rocking chair that that is detailed in scrolling wicker and a diamond pattern, in addition to a...

A fine pair of 19th century French fauteuil armchairs in giltwood. They have been finely carved with theatrical masks, flutes and...

A set of six Spanish Isabelina style / Victorian period side chairs with upholstered seat and upper back. Covered in neutral fabric, they can be reupholstered to match any interior or design scheme. Standing sturdily on elegant cabriole legs, the dark wood furniture...

A wonderful set of 6 Wicker chairs. All handcrafted and intricately done. Table is also available please see our listing LU908333614222 A compliment to many settings - if you are a ...

***Reduced In-House Delivery Rates - Click on “Ask Seller” to Request a Quote*** Pair Renaissance Revival Carved Walnut & Needlepoint Parlor Armchairs, Ladies & Gents, C1880. Mea...

A 19th Century Victorian Painted Oak Adjustable Music Chair. Adjustable seat height 18" to 25". 14.5" wide x 17" in depth and stands 38"

This is an antique prie dieu chair, a 19th century, early Victorian chair in walnut with a needlepoint tapestry seat cover. Ideal as a bedroom side chair and dating to circa 1840. ...

Pair Nutwood Edelweis Marquetry Chairs Swiss Brienz 1900 A pair wonderful inlayed nutwood chairs decorated with inlayed and painted sceneries depicting chamois, goat, hare, hunter, ...

Pair of wonderfully designed wooden bentwood chairs with gilt details. The chairs are original. The design is unique and rare and would make a lo...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original Victorian hand carved mahogany show frame library reading armchair A good looking well made and decorative show framed arm...

Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Really Stunning Vintage Armchair Carved Gilded Walnut by CAROL HICKS BOLTON...

Lovely child's mid-Victorian hardwood rocking chair, ebonized with hand painted polychromed floral stenciling to the top back rail in colors of blue, green and red; gold line and fle...

This is a very good quality example of an English occasional side chair in the Rococo style, from the mid Victorian period, circa 1850, made from Beech. The back is a Classic balloon back shape, but with intricate cut-out and carved detail to the frame and particularly to the cross splat. This carved detail is continued on the front legs and front stretcher. The foot of the legs are splayed slightly outwards which adds to the features of this chair. Twin side stretchers give additional strength to this chair but overall this is a delicately made chair. It has a good wool-work covered seat with a rose spray design. Please note: This chair is not a strong dining room chair and is not recommended for regular use as a chair to sit on. The chair is light and would make a very pretty bedroom or hall side chair, to be used principally for display either on its own or with say teddy bears displayed on it, or for draping light...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to this stunning pair of fully restored hand dyed Whisky brown leather wade upholstery Wingba...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of four original Maple & Co. solid mahogany dining chairs These chairs are part of a suite These are a very well made set, ...

Series of four refined 19th century authentic English Victorian mahogany wood four chairs. The legs are very elegant with carved wood decorations. The seat is wide and comfortable in goods conditions. Antique goods...

A rare Antique Beech Wood X Framed Cane back Arm chair. With its unusual Savonarola looking frame makes this wonderful chair both charming and a practical hall or bedroom chair that ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this important, handmade made in England, circa 1860-1880 Victorian ornately hand carved English Oak Cockfig...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare and collectable William Morris Rush seat Sussex armchair circa 1870-1880 as seen in the Victorian and Albert museum The History This chair was named after a country chair found in Sussex, which inspired the design with the turned frame and rush seat. Similar types of chairs, with imitation bamboo frames and rush seats, were fashionable between 1790 and 1820. Ownership & Use William Morris and his wife, Jane, used Sussex chairs in their first home, Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, from 1860 and subsequently in their London house, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. Morris's great friend, the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) had Sussex armchairs in his studio, as did the sculptor, Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934). Robert Edis recommended this chair as 'excellent, comfortable and artistic' in his influential book, 'Decoration and Furnishing of Town Houses in 1881'. Examples from the Sussex range were supplied for students' rooms at Newnham College...

This is a late 19th century Clerk's Estate High Chair as used at a Clerk's Desk in the late Victorian period, circa 1880, now very useful as a kitchen chair at a breakfast bar...

Victorian walnut armchair A Victorian walnut armchair of good proportions. Fully restored and covered in calico. Loose cover made in 'Old Flax, Ivory' by ...

Fine quality traditional form solid mahogany Victorian balloon back chair with "slip in" seat, upholstered in black and maroon pin-striped fabri...

19th century captain's chair from England. The chair is made from oak and has a seat made from elm. This type of chair was made for sitting for long periods of time and is very com...

This stunning pair of Victorian hand-carved walnut ladies chairs are nothing short of breathtaking when you see them in an environment. They've spent the last 50 years of their lives...

A gorgeous rare bentwood side chair by Jacob & Josef Kohn. This piece is perfect for use as a side chair, desk chair, or dining chair. Created by the iconic duo Jacob & Josef, or J &...

This is an antique gentleman's drawing room armchair. An English, mahogany elbow chair in Chippendale taste, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Presents wonderful Chi...

Stunning pair of quality 19th Century mahogany desk chairs having a quality pair of antique mahogany desk chairs with upholstered seats and back panels, scrolled arms above turned ta...

Vintage Barber Chair for Children, Germany ca. 1950s A vintage barber shop children chair. With rotatable height adjustment and a wooden ho...

An antique caned rocking chair. The chair has a caned balloon back carved on the crest with a simple flower. Outward flowing arm like suppor...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of hand carved oak with rush seats Brittany chairs circa 1920. These chairs actually come from a ...

A pair of Victorian English ebonized childs bobbin chairs with upholstered seats and backs. Each having a turned wooden bobbin frame with turned finials above an upholstered seat, r...

Antique Victorian quality carved mahogany desk chair, having a quality carved mahogany back, shaped open arms with carved scrolls, upholstered seat standing on shaped carved cabriole...

Late 19th century very unique English side chair in solid oak with carved back in floral motif. Two long vertical open slats (one to each side of the back) add to the unique design o...

We are is delighted to offer for sale this large and collectable vintage metamorphic armchair which converts into Library steps with Berger seat and leather upholstered steps A good looking well made and decorative library armchair which metamorphosises into a library steps. The chair has the original patinated bergere seat and the steps have leather upholstery which has been upholstered very flat so you have a good even tread. The steps are quite special on this one because they have a small hand rail...

Pair Nutwood Edelweis Marquetry Chairs Swiss Brienz 1900s A pair of wonderful walnut chairs, decorated with inlaid and painted landscapes depicting stags, ibexes, hunters and edelwe...

We are delighted to this absolutely stunning solid Rosewood hand carved high back low seat Burmese chair A truly stunning piece, this type of furniture is just about as ornate as ...

Set of six Antique English 19th century mahogany balloon back chairs, circa 1860 A good example of 19th century design. In very good...

We delight to offer for sake this stunning set of twelve Victorian carved oak and upholstered dining chairs, late 19th century , including two elbow chairs , with channel moulded sho...

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...

Very nicely appointed Victorian rush seated ladder back chair; English and mid 19th century. A little different with the fret back design,...

Victorian antique carved walnut chair having a beautiful carved detail to the top, shaped back with elegantly carved shaped arms with a se...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of original Italian circa 1860 hand carved walnut throne armchairs with period upholstery A wonderfully decorative and super or...

A completely refinished Late 19th century Ebonized and Parcel Gilt and hand decorated Cane Seat Side Chair. Very sturdy and will last the next few decades.

Rare Nutwood Edelweis Marquetry Chair Swiss Brienz 1900 A very nice antique Swiss nutwood chair decorated with inlayed and painted sceneries depicting ibex and chamois. The backrest...

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...

Pair of French Victorian rosewood armchairs with carved back crest rail and red floral Aubusson upholstery. (similar to #038110C).

An antique Victorian photographers chair in the manner of Heywood Wakefield offers wicker construction with rolled back and arm over bombe form sea...

Pair Nutwood Edelweis Marquetry Chairs Swiss Brienz 1900 A pair wonderful inlayed nutwood chairs decorated with inlayed and painted sceneries depicting chamois, goat, hare, hunter, ...

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...