Victorian Dining Room Chairs

Quality set of four antique mahogany dining chairs with a lovely tall back, carved shaped top lovely carved open splat to the centre, newly recovered drop in seats, standing on taper...

Set of 6 antique Victorian quality rosewood dining chairs having a quality rosewood shaped top rail with carved scrolls, carved splat to the centre, newly reupholstered seats in a qu...

We delight to offer for sale this fantastic Set of Six (4+2) Victorian Carved Oak Carolean-Style Dining Chairs, late 19th century, with removable squab cushions and single-cane back ...

Fine quality set of six English Victorian antique walnut dining chairs having beautifully designed and crafted circular balloon backs with ...

An early Victorian side chair in mahogany with curved top rail, and raised on turned front legs and saber back legs. Seat is upholstered in a tufted, beige/camel-colored leather with...

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...

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...

Set of four antique Victorian quality carved walnut dining chairs having a quality carved solid walnut shaped back with a carved centre splat standing on turned reeded tapering legs ...

We delight to offer for sale this stunning set of fourteen Victorian oak and pollard oak dining chairs, with relief moulded armorial centred back rails for the Withers family, over a...

A set of six 19th century rosewood dining chairs, with carved foliate backs, overstuffed seats raised on on cabriole legs. circa 1860.

A magnificent set of 6 dining chairs from the late 19th century, crafted in oak and featuring heavily carved frames that showcase exquisite attention to detail. Each chair stands on ...

Set of 6 Victorian mahogany balloon back dining chairs These chairs are raised upon ring turned front legs with sabre back legs The recently reupholstered seats being of a stuff over...

These are a pair of 19th century antique mahogany Hepplewhite style side chairs with shaped top rail and a carved and reeded centre splat. They have had newly reupholstered seats. Th...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning suite of six Victorian Circa 1860 hand carved Walnut Claw & Ball feet dining chairs Please no...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exceptional set of six French oak with Embossed brown leather upholstered Henry II circa 1880 dining ch...

Fabulous set of 8 Flemish Victorian dining chairs with large carved high backs. Sturdy construction and original studded upholstery - some color fade and two seats could be re-uphols...

Antique Victorian mahogany carved set of 6 dining chairs having a pretty shaped top rail with scrolled detail, carved centre splats, newly upholstered seats standing on turned reeded...

A rare treasure discovered in France, this courtly 18th-century slipper chair, with its fanciful carved frame and button-tufted upholstery, is not only a gorgeous antique but also a ...

Antique 19th century English Victorian balloon back mahogany library side chairs. Listing features turn carved legs, drop seats, balloon backs, soli...

Antique Victorian Walnut and Cane Carved Lounge Arm Chair With Queen Anne Legs. Circa Early 1900s. Measurements: 38.5" H x 24.5" W x 24.5" D x 17" Seat height x 26.5" Arm height. *...

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...

Set of 8 English Victorian style (20th Century) dining chairs in a sprayed matte black finish with a rounded back haviing open arch designs and resting on front turned and fluted leg...

Set of 4 Victorian Balloon Back Dining Chairs The Chairs have Balloon Style Backs and newly woven flat cane seats. The set is sound with no loose joints or wobbles, a very attract...

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, ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare suite of lightly restored Victorian Chesterfield green Heritage leather dining chairs with ma...

For sale a set of four Victorian walnut framed dining chairs by Gillow of Lancaster , raised on fluted tapering legs , bearing stamped maker s marks to seat rails. According to Wikip...

Rare and remarkable set of eight 19th century English dining chairs having two armchairs and six sides crafted in mahogany with eboni...

10 Outdoor Victorian painted wire side chairs with shaped back. PRICED EACH. Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

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

Set of 6 walnut Victorian Cabriole Leg dining chairs. These dining chairs stand upon Typical Victorian Cabriole legs. Having a Stuff Over S...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly collectable set of six original Victorian mahogany framed dining chairs with Napoleonic blue bordered Turkey Kilim Rug upholstery which are part of a suite These have a very rare upholstery which is called Turkey work, it’s a kind of Kilim rug which has been used for century’s to upholstery English country house furniture...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and important suite of six original Victorian Walnut Eton College captains chairs each one carved with EC in the back rest A substantial find, I have never seen one of these let alone a suite of six, perfect for a gentleman’s club or the perfect height for luxury dining chairs In terms of the condition they are circa 1860, hand carved from solid slabs of walnut, they have traces of the original varnish which has worn away over the decades to reveal the glorious timber patina. They have various small repairs here and there as you would expect Dimensions Height 78cm, seat height 41cm Width 58cm Depth 61cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point Eton college has been attended by some important people over the years to include Hugh Laurie, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. ... Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex...

Set of four wheel back kitchen chairs in ash with elm seats. U.K Circa 1900. H 90cm (SH 45cm) x W 38cm x D 43cm

A charming pair of Victorian style dining (or boardroom) chairs, upholstered in a milk chocolate brown leather with decorative nail head trim and nicely carved detailing in the 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...

Combining modern simplicity with the delicate lines of the Victorian era, the Catherine collection recovers that royal essence that characterized the most distinguished pieces of the...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning suite of eight Louis XVI style circa 1860-1880 dining chairs from Spencer House which was built for the Spencer family between 1756-1766 for John, the first Earl Spencer, currently resides Charles Spencer the 9th Earl Spencer I have various pieces from the last Spencer house sale, which is still owned by Lady Diana Spencer...

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, antique Colonial Rosewood Thomas Chippendale, fret work carved dining chairs Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide and covers London only for the UK and local Europe for the rest of the world, if you are outside of this area please send me your address and I will provide you with an accurate quote Where to begin, if you’re looking at this listing then the chances are you know exactly how significant this suite is, Thomas Chippendale was simply put, the most important furniture designer in history, these chairs are the only Colonial examples I have ever seen and in Rosewood no less, they weigh roughly three times more than a standard dining chair of the same style and size, they are very substantial The chairs are late 19th century circa 1880-1900, they are of course based on the original 18th century examples, the carving is exquisitely executed and the chairs look sophisticated and elegant from all angles The suite has been sympathetically restored to include a deep clean, hand condition wax and hand polish, the seat covers have been left as they are, they are ok, I can have them reupholstered for the cost price to anything the new owners wish Literature Two chairs illustrated in Tabellenbuch Holztechnik, Hamburg, 2013, p. 271. Exhibited Ten chairs on loan to Birmingham Museums circa 1985-2010 and exhibited at Aston Hall, Birmingham, where photographed in situ.. Dimensions Height:- 93cm Width:- 56cm Depth:- 53cm Seat height:- 47cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point. Lot Essay These chairs are closely related to those in two recognised Chippendale commissions: Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet for Normanton Hall, Rutland and William Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries (4th Earl of Stair, 1699-1768) for Dumfries House, Ayrshire. THE RELATED CHAIRS The chairs are of identical decoration to the set of two armchairs and ten single chairs, circa 1765, formerly at Normanton Hall (1). In 1759, Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet, succeeded to the vast inheritance established by his grandfather, also Gilbert, 1st Baronet (1652-1733), who was reputed to be ‘the richest commoner in England’ (2). The 3rd Baronet employed both Chippendale Senior and his son, Chippendale Junior, in the furnishing of his Palladian mansion, Normanton Hall in Rutland, and his London houses, 29 Grosvenor Square, London and Browne's House at North End, Fulham. Surviving Chippendale accounts, although incomplete, show that the firm was working periodically for members of the Heathcote family from 1768 to 1821. Most of the furniture listed in these accounts was intended for Browne’s House, although after 1798 when the family relinquished this residence some of the furniture was moved to Normanton Hall. The latter was sold in 1924, and any furniture not included in the Normanton Hall sale was taken to the Earl of Ancaster’s seat at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. Chippendale’s earliest invoice for Sir Gilbert Heathcote records the acquisition in 1768 of ‘6 India Back and arm chairs Japand to imitate the Bamboe’, signifying how the family embraced the highly fashionable chinoiserie taste. Although the Normanton chairs cannot be conclusively identified in the extant Chippendale accounts, their form and ornamentation led Christopher Gilbert to suggest that they were possibly by Chippendale (3). The set of four mahogany chairs at Dumfries House have nearly-identical pagoda-form cresting rails and identical terminals but differ in the arrangement of the 'Chinese' paling in the backs and side panels. Although no documentary evidence for the Dumfries chairs survives, in their execution and sophisticated carving of the toprails, they are extremely close to Chippendale’s hand. Another near-set of closely related chairs is at Saltram House, Devon, where Chippendale worked between 1771-2; these dates are based on payments in John Parker's cash account book, and probably do not reflect a true picture of the entire commission as Parker often paid tradesmen by banker's draft (4). Comprising two armchairs and seven single chairs, this set, circa 1765, is made of padouk, and has been described by the National Trust as ‘Chinese Export’ (5). The set was returned to Saltram in 1951 having been accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951). Some of the chairs are currently on display in ‘The Chinese Chippendale Bedroom’. A further set of four padouk chairs of the Saltram pattern was almost certainly at Kenwood House, London; some of these are recorded in 18th century inventories drawn up by Lord Mansfield. This set was removed to Scone Palace, Perth, prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922, and subsequently sold from ‘Scone Palace and Blairquhan: The Selected Contents of Two Great Scottish Houses’, Christie’s, London, 24 May 2007, lot 298. Another pair of padouk chairs of this model sold ‘The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller’, Christie’s, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 647 ($193,750 inc. premium). THE DESIGN Conceived in the Chinese manner expounded by William and John Halfpenny in Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1752), and Sir William Chambers in his Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils (1757), the pattern for this set of ‘Pagoda’ chairs relates to nine designs for ‘Chinese Chairs’ in the 1st edition of Chippendale’s Director (1754); the cabinet-maker describes these designs thus: Plates XXIII, XXIV and XXV are nine Chairs in the present Chinese manner, which I hope will improve that taste, or manner of work; it having yet never arrived to any perfection; doubtless it might be lost without feeling its beauty: as it admits of the greatest variety, I think it the most useful of any other. The sizes are all specified on the designs. The three last (No. XXV.) I hope will be well received, as there has been none like them yet made. The Georgian period witnessed the proliferation of such railed and pagoda-crested chairs in both the ‘picturesque’ Chinese tea pavilions of landscaped parks as well as in fashionable apartments hung with ‘India’ paper. The geometric ‘Chinese’ feet of these chairs are also found on a set of pedestals...

Superb quality set of 6 antique Victorian carved burr walnut dining chairs having a superior quality carved walnut shaped top, burr walnut shaped splat with carved scrolls to the cen...

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Combining modern simplicity with the delicate lines of the Victorian era, the Catherine collection recovers that royal essence that characterized the most distinguished pieces of the...

Lot of 4 Victorian Dining or side chairs from the last half of the 19th century. Each is made from mahogany with a carved balloon back and floral needelpoint. Each of the chairs ha...

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Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare suite of fully restored late Victorian Chesterfield brown leather dining chairs...

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Quality antique Victorian mahogany set of four dining chairs having a quality shaped top and a shaped splat to the centre with serpentine shaped seats covered in a quality fabric. Th...

Set of 10 (8+2) Victorian style mahogany dining chairs. These mahogany dining chairs stand upon ring turned and fluted front legs the back legs being of a swept form. circa 1920. The backs of the chairs being of a typical Victorian style with a carved centre rail and a shaped and carved cresting rail. The carvers featuring shaped and carved supports with shaped and padded arms...

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Set of 6 Victorian Mahogany Dining Chairs. Circa 1850 These chairs Have Turned Front Legs and Sabre back Legs. The Chairs Feature Recently Re Upholstered Lift Out Seats. Having a Sha...

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We are delighted to offer this extremely rare suite of four early Victorian circa 1840-1860 hand carved dining chairs with ebonised and gold gilt frames which have been fully restore...

We are delighted to offer for sale this suite of six absolutely exquisite quality hand made in England Mahogany framed dining chairs after Gillows These chairs are honestly the fi...

Fine quality antique Victorian set of six walnut dining chairs having a quality walnut carved pierced balloon back and newly reupholste...

We delight to offer for sale this beautiful set of Eight (6+2) Carved oak Hepplewhite-Style Dining Chairs, late 19th century, covered in floral and red needlework, the oval pierced b...