Set of Six Fine and Rare Walnut Klismos Style Chairs with Cane Seat

A fine polished chrome klismos style chair with heavy construction. With the elegant and classic curved back and curved tapering square supports a...

Rustic set of eight English Country style banister back chairs in dark stained maple with tightly woven rush seats. Each Chair measures 17.5” wide by 15.25” deep by 39.5” high. Seat...

A set of six very well-made dining chairs with elaborately carved backs plate having a central flower design with flower carved crest, generous Serpentine front seats, H-Form stretch...

Classic Chippendale style carved dining chairs with wild Space Age type distressed seat fabric in silvered material. With two arm and four side chairs. With curved crest rails and op...

With Classic curved crest rails with carved leaves and center palmette, and openwork interlaced splats with leafy details. Raised on square front legs and square splayed back legs, w...

A particularly elegant set of Chairs with a very interesting and somewhat complex Neoclassical styling. With four arm and four side chairs. Fine wood frames in a dark stain with scro...

Two chairs and two armchairs. Original cognac-coloured leather seats with fine gold embossed frieze. Dimensions provided below are for the armchairs. The chairs measure (in centim...

A set of six English faux bamboo walnut side chairs from the early 20th century, with cane seats. Created in England during the Turn of the Century, each of this set of six side chai...

Beautiful set of four Late Victorian walnut inlays cane seat dining chairs and hip support in very good antique condition. Measures 19 inche...

Beautiful set of three Late Victorian walnut inlays cane seat dining chairs and hip support in very good antique condition. Measures 19 inch...

A set of six Spanish style dining chairs by Century Furniture. Solid walnut, carved crestrail, high cane backs, blue & grey color fabric upholstered sea...

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1820. Mahogany (secondary woods: Birch and maple; slip seats: Birch and pine) Measures: 33 1/4 in. high, 18 5/8 in. wide, 19 ¼ in. deep (overall). Ex Coll: Private collection, until 2004; to [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 2004]; to private collection, 2004 until the present. Exhibited: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1999–2000, Boston in the Age of Neoclassicism, 1810–1840, p. 57 no. 21D illus. in color // Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2001–2002, of the Newest Fashion: Masterpieces of American neoclassical Decorative Arts, pp. 93 cat. 26, 95 illus. in color two chairs from the set / Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2014-2015, very rich and handsome, p. 30 no. 5 illus. in color two chairs from the set. One of the signature forms of furniture of the neoclassical period in the United States is the klismos chair as interpreted by a group of Boston cabinetmakers in the period circa 1820 (see Page Talbott, “Seating Furniture in Boston, 1810–1835,” The Magazine Antiques CXXXIX [May 1991], pp. 966ff.). These chairs are usually characterized by sabre legs at the front and the back and curved crest rails typically enriched with flaming mahogany veneers, their ends often punctuated by stylized leaves, anthemia, or scrolls, and center splats decorated with leaves, drapery, lyres, etc. Just as it is easy to identify a New York or Philadelphia side, or dining, chair of the period, so Boston chairs have a certain “look” that sets them apart from chairs from all other American cabinetmaking centers in this period. The sumptuous nature of the lotus bud and tulip-carved swags which form the back splats of these chairs is offset by the simplicity of the crest rail, in which oval veneered panels are encircled by a raised molding, and by the reeded stiles which seamlessly sweep down to become first the side-rails and then the front legs of the chairs. Although the form of these chairs relates them to many comparable Boston examples of the period, none of these other chairs feature the paw feet that terminate the front legs of the present set of chairs, a feature that appears to be otherwise unknown on Boston side chairs...