Library Chair in the George II manner

A pair of Thomas Chippendale carved mahogany dining chairs with eagle carved arms and top rail on claw feet. Designed originally for the Iris...

A fine pair of carved and water gilded library armchairs designed by Robert Adam and made by Thomas Chippendale for the great room at Arlington Street London. The serpentine scrolled...

A set of 12 fine George II design banquet chair with classical rake to the back on acanthus and shell carved legs terminating in a carved hairy claw foo...

A William Kent design gilded wood library armchair with tapering square legs, acanthus and shell carvings, vitruvian scroll rails and swept arms with...

A fine quality pair of late 19th Century mahogany Chippendale style Gainsborough Library Armchairs, having arched serpentine shaped backs with set-back arms with acanthus, scrolls, f...

The Chippendale Gainsborough armchair. This handsome carved mahogany library or “Gainsborough” armchair has a gently curving back and shaped a...

A very good quality 18th Century Georgian style Mahogany Gainsborough arm chair, having wonderful classical scrolling foliate, lattice work and floral carved decoration to the show wood, raised on square section legs also with carved decoration. Stuff over upholstered back and seat with brass studding. A copy of the St. Giles House chairs, made by William Vile...

An important pair of mid-18th century Chippendale period mahogany Library Armchairs, having unusual carved and scrolled cartouche-shaped backs, with scroll moulded set-back arms. The Chairs having stuffover seats with gadrooned borders, supported on blind fret carved cabriole legs with scrolled toes. For similar examples see Chippendale's Director, 'French Chairs' Plate XXI Further information: Similar examples of our Library Armchairs can be found in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale book Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director (1762). The pair resembles the right chair design in Plate XXI, catalogued by Chippendale as “French Chairs”. He described in his book that this model “may be executed to advantage, some of them are intended to be open below at the back: which makes them very light without having a bad effect.’ His design illustrates his familiarity with the fashionable French Rococo style represented by the curvilinear form of the chair and scrolled feet. The carved surface decoration on our Chairs is much less elaborate than that on the published design and is more reminiscent of the work of Robert Manwaring...