1840s Seating

A late Georgian ducal armchair, circa 1840, retaining its original beech show-frame and covered in calico in preparation for reupholstery, so named for its generous proportions assoc...

Fabulous simple handcrafted bench in pine from Lancaster County Pennsylvania C1840. Originally painted and stenciled but was stripped of the paint in the seventies. The pine is all o...

Beautiful set of 6 antique mahogany Victorian dining chairs in very good, original condition. Five are normal ones and one is with armrests. The upholstery is used. Origin: England ...

American Southern Chippendale mahogany wing back chair with serpentine back, flared wings, flanking scrolled arms, removable seat cushion, and terminating on claw and ball feet. Secondary wood consist of bald cypress...

Swiss alpine folk art Escabelle from St Moritz A 12.

In the Regency taste with serpentine arched caned back and scrolled out arms. carved seat rail with round discs over lion form legs and paw feet.

Pair of 19th Century, Louis XV style, "Cabriolet" armchairs recently painted in a Off-white ceruse finish and waxed. This pair has been restored to their original beauty. They are u...

A pair of Swedish chairs about 1840:s. The back is very unusual and could be seen as a double G, referring to King Gustav the Third in Sweden. There are tw...

This 19th-century Spanish bench showcases masterful craftsmanship with its solid wood construction and paneled backrest. The rich patina, achieved through years of use, enhances the ...

Very special set of six C1840 half spindle dining chairs in original yellow pai t with hand stenciling. Plank seats which are one board all in excellent very tight condition. Beautif...

Karl Johan, intarsia decoration with antique figures, blackened turned backrest. The seat upholstered. Very good original condition.

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

This is an antique spoon back elbow chair. An English, walnut ladies parlour armchair, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1840. Exceptional ch...

Very rare and refined pair of armchairs attributed to architect M.G. Bindesbøll, crafted in Denmark around 1840. The chairs reflect the emergence of Danish historicism—where classica...

Set 8 oak Jacobean Revival farmhouse dining chairs Very detailed carving on all sections including top of the back rest Come with cushions so comfortable to sit in Set consists of t...

Swiss alpine folk art escabelle a 33 with nice sculpture work.

A wonderfully crafted Danish chair in stained beech, dating to the 1840s, in the manner of Jørgen Roed (1808–1888), a celebrated painter and designer associated with the Danish Golde...

A superb, rare, impressively sized and extremely comfortable early-Victorian Windsor armchair in wonderful condition and built to last. Most likely made in England around 1840, this ...

Late French Empire mahogany barrel form chair with turned legs, along with a modern copy. Very deep chair and extremely comfortable. Completely reupholstered.  

New England Hitchcock chairs, Set of Six, Most likely Connecticut, Circa 1840 The set of six side chairs have stenciled gilt decorations of flow...

Pair of American "scroll pattern" parlor chairs in rosewood by John Henry Belter or Johann Heinrich Belter, noted German American Cabinetmaker from 1844-1863, NYC. The technique used...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely, collectable circa 1840-1860 English Victorian hand carved Mahogany framed Library reading armch...

Swiss alp escabelle B 65

Back decorated in various inlaid woods showing vines, flowers etc., The tops of the back chair rails are mounted with eagle heads, and are joined together with a turned gilded deco...

Swiss alpine folk art escabelle from Verbier village A29.

The matching chair 29.5 w x 44.5 h x 32 d x seat H 17.25. Two worn olive leather chairs with tufted back and seat. Scrolled arms with brass tacks. Circular tapered legs with casters....

This is a 19th century French farm table bench, beautiful patina at age these are great for tables but so many times they're used in mudroom or hallways. DIMENSIONS 83ʺW × 9ʺD × 17ʺH

We are delighted to offer for sale this rare fully restored circa 1840 show framed Chesterfield tufted hand dyed brown leather library reading chair...

An exceptionally rare and historically significant set of eight chairs, designed by M.G. Bindesbøll. These chairs feature turned and stained beech frames, beautifully complemented by...

From the reign of the French-born Swedish king, Karl Johan, a very lovely set of six dining chairs in birch with foliate carvings on crest and bottom back rail, with turned front leg...

An early Victorian mahogany side chair in green velvet tufted upholstery, 1840s. 18 ½ inches wide by 25 inches deep by 36 inches tall

Anglo-Indian Solid Ebony Sofa, Circa 1830 Finely Carved and Upholstered in Natural Linen A magnificent early 19th-century Anglo-Indian sofa, crafted around 1830 in solid ebony. The ...

This is a unique Swedish Gustavian Style Bench. it was just restored and repainted with Milk Paints "Oyster White" the seating has also been restored and covered with Musln.

You are viewing a gorgeous Victorian oak settle or hall bench Circa 1840 Finely carved panelled back oak Lifting lid for storage Typically used in...

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...

Swiss alp escabelle B 68

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...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, fully restored Antique Victorian Irish Chesterfield captain...

English mahogany leather wing back chair with acanthus carved skirt, knee, and terminating on ball and claw feet. Mid 19th Century

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original 19th Century hand carved French Empire circa 1840 oversized throne armchair with huge...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely stunning fully restored hand carved Mahogany framed, early Victorian circa 1840-1850 Ships Capta...

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...

A lovely quality and highly decorative 19th Century oak turners chair, having a high back with angled turned arms and supported on three turned legs united by turned stretchers, tria...

Antique French Shearling Upholstered Armchair Completely Restored using Old School methods, which simply means we do not use foam rubber for padding and actually tie the coil springs by hand, However, this Antique French Armchair is so old that there is not a straight line in sight for everything is a bit askew. I would prefer to simply describe it as cattywampus. Apparently the internet defines it as "something askew, out of line, or in disarray". None of this bothers us and it comes with the territory of purchasing 200-year old French Armchairs, so we're used to it. Our French Antique Armchair was completely rebuilt from the frame up and is rock solid. The covering is genuine Sheep Shearling and we now typically stock several Antique chairs covered...

1947 Peder Pedersen, set of six solid wood dining chairs of mahogany and seats upholstered with black leather. Made by cabinetmaker Peder Pedersen. Presented at the Copenhagen Cabine...

1947 Peder Pedersen set of seven solid hardwood dining chairs, seats upholstered with dark horsehair. Designed 1947. H: 82 W: 50 D: 52 Seat Height: 43cm. Presented at the Copenhagen ...

This stunning Biedermeier wingback armchair, crafted in South Germany around 1860, is a timeless example of 19th-century design. Made from beautifully grained yew wood, the chair sho...

You are viewing a gorgeous pair of hand carved walnut armchairs These antique chairs are circa 1840 Elaborately carved with paw feet and grotesques to each handle Also features bronz...

A pair of Biedermeier benches with intricate carvings, half round armrests and pillars on the sides with acanthus leaves. In the middle of the backre...

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...

Set of 6 Victorian Upholstered Dining Chairs A superb quality set of chairs, the chairs have a shaped balloon back top rail, turned legs and they have new upholstery, the chairs have been covered with Liberty Blue...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely lightly restored hand carved Mahogany, early Victorian circa 1840 Ships Captains armchair with c...

A large C19th oak hall bench, with arched back with pierced carving featuring intertwined trifold and quatrefoils, flanked by swept arms with scroll corbels and coronet capitals, rai...

Lovely antique piano bench with internal compartment for music sheet storage. The perfect accompaniment to a beautiful piano, this piece is suitabl...

We are delighted to this lovely suite of eight Gothic Revival hand carved walnut dining chairs A very good looking and well made suite, made in circa 1840 but based on a much earl...

Early Victorian Mahogany & leather Desk Elbow chair Balloon Shaped Back With carved back Splat Scroll Open Elbows Brown Leather Drop in seat. recently covered Hexagonal & turned fron...

A pair of mid 19th Century mahogany hall chairs, having circular shaped and moulded backs and centred by shield reserves, hard seats...

having a rounded back and sides with turned arm supports, the seat and back upholstered in antique leather, the swiveling seat atop a conforming frame raised on turned legs with whee...

Of double-serpentine form; covered in butter yellow horsehair with star-motif with silk rope trim; over a deep shaped apron centered by a foliate cusp; on casters.

Swiss alpine Folk Art escabelle from Lucerne village A 19.