Late 19th Century Seating

A very rare model, produced only in limited quantities. Collector's piece. Manufactured in Austria by the Gebrüder Thonet Company. In the production program was included, circa 1873....

A very impressive large pair of Japanese carved softwood armchairs, each depicting carved exotic flowers and foliage.

This fine arrow back windsor child's chair is in fine condition and all original painted grey surface. It is arrow back windsor chair from New England.

A beautiful antique Victorian Chesterfield sofa, perfect for restoration or reupholstery. This classic piece features a traditional deep-buttoned back, rolled arms, and rich tufted v...

On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, chairs you could hope to find. This is an ultra-rare opportunity to acquire what is, unequivocally, the best of the best, it be...

This 19th century mahogany daybed is stamped an numbered by Gillow, British furnituremaker, ready for upholstery.

"A set of 6 Victorian period, mahogany dining chairs, circa 1870. This set features attractively figured timbers with curved top rails, with an open back. Overstuffed upholstered sea...

Typical form with new leather with tacks. With label from Liberty on base. From a Bunny Williams designed Palm Beach home.

Magnificent regence style giltwood, exeptional carved wood the fabric is silk and coming from the famous silkerie in LYON france who specialise in silk fabric since the 18th century....

A large French late 19th century carved walnut Regence style ottoman, tabouret. This ottoman is beautifully carved with an X stretcher and scrolled legs. It is very decorative and ...

This is an antique Glastonbury chair. An English, oak ecclesiastical armchair with Gothic overtones, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890. Traditional Glastonbury chair w...

English Queen Anne style (19/20th Cent) walnut open arm chair with white upholstered seat and back. (similar to PPF333A) Upholstery stained/marked

Pair of Italian baroque style upholstered benches with flanking carved serpentine skirts, and resting on the original cabriole legs with pad feet. Late 19th century.

Victorian Walnut Childs Arm Chair in Red Velvet. The upholstery is fairly new with no pulls or staining. The walnut frame has age-appropriate wear and...

A very good quality late 19th Century Sheraton revival shield back arm chair, with wonderful hand painted classical floral decoration, velvet ...

19th century pair of chairs in mahogany and mahogany veneer in moulded and carved wood, the backrest and the belt centered with an escutche...

Mid-Victorian rosewood fretwork Ottoman in good condition with pastel pink and blue upholstery, with fretwork on each side and single drawer to the base with hinged lift lid for stor...

Antique Adjustable Sherz Lounge Chair A beautifully restored Sherz lounge chair, an iconic 19th-century adjustable reclining chaise originally designed for therapeutic relaxation an...

Egyptian Revival loveseat composed of rosewood inlaid with bone,ebony ,,Upholstered in a burlap fabric in Egyptian motif,,original,The loveseat features reversable back...

This nice pair of high-backed armchairs is made of walnut. This is a French work in the style of Louis XIII. Circa 1880.

Elegant and comfortable carved walnut armchair is a provincial style the recent silk upholstery is a high quality woven fabric in an all-over floral pattern. The quality of the carvi...

A beautiful and very well made antique Edwardian piano duet stool. This was made in England, it dates from the 1890-1910 period. The quality is excellent this has a gorgeous and ver...

Ensemble de salon en bois sculpté – Circa 1880 Superbe ensemble de mobilier de salon en bois patiné, finement sculpté de masques grotesques, comprenant : Un canapé Une paire de fau...

Antique carved hardwood and upholstered Victorian stool English, Late 19th century Height 37cm, width 120cm, depth 79cm Finely carved and up...

Reupholstered French rosewood rococo style two seat settee on cabriole legs. Circa 1890. H 89cm (SH 47cm) x W 125cm x D 72cm

Swedish Biedermeier Empire pair of antique carver chairs in highest grade quilted golden birch veneers finished in the Classic honey oak ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super comfortable Howard & Son's Berners Street sofa with the inside back left leg stamped along with t...

19th century Gustavian period Swedish pine bench with storage This bench is a nice example of Gustavian furniture, the Swedish interpretation of French neoclassical design. Decor...

Antique 19th century French carved walnut needlepoint armchair.

A handsome pair of 19th Century Swedish armchairs. Paint has been retouched. Circa 1870.

Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for your daily devotions. Created in Normandy, France circa 1880, the Prie-Dieu ( Pray God ), stands on curved legs joined by a d...

Unique bergère, frame made of carved and gilded wood, with exquisite flower and rocaille decorations. The bergère is newly upholstered and covered with a prestigious fabric. The gild...

Original and of the period. Hard to find longer length. Rectangular top with turned cylindrical hand holds. Raised on circular tapered legs. Sold in 2001 from a NYC dealer...

We recently had this 1880-ish French chair reupholstered. It's amazing to me how a modern day contemporary fabric can transform an antique chair frame. This chair as been done in leo...

American Victorian Eastlake style armchair with burgundy and beige checkered upholstery with a button tufted roll back and a mahogany frame with carved detail including floral medall...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original Victorian ottoman footstool upholstered with Liberty London Ianthe fabric My favourite type of stool in my favourite liber...

A fine pair of Biedermeier style satin birchwood armchairs The plume shaped top rail extending to midway between the stiles, terminating in an ebonised fan shaped splat, above a s...

Pair 19th Century French Napoleon III Period Empire Style Painted Armchairs ~ Bergere with Fauteuil with cut silk velvet recalls the glory days of Napoleon and Josephine creating wha...

The straight, padded back re-upholstered in a modern linen to give a contemporary aesthetic. Originally with red velvet and embellished with 18th century, braid, fringe and tasse...

Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for your daily devotions. Created in Normandy, France circa 1880, the Prie-Dieu ( Pray God ), stands on curved legs joined by a d...

Jacob & Josef Khon, 2 Canapés 101 / C, circa 1902, Napoleon III style Original fabric.     

A high-quality, French child's armchair or fauteuil, in the Louis XIV style (Circa 1900), with Scottish tweed fabric upholstery (more recent), brass nai...

K0240 Late Victorian ash and elm smokers bow armchair with shaped top rail supported on turned uprights and generous seat, all standing on substantial tur...

Antique Bamboo Eastlake Style settee Bamboo and hardwood construction with accents in brass. Hand painted seat and back in floral motifs. 53? Wid...

19th century Spanish hand carved set of four chairs and two armchairs, with wicker seating. As can be appreciated in the last photo, one of the chair's seat is damaged.       

K0518 Very attractive Victorian hall seat, having shaped top rail with moulded and panelled back, open arms with decorative spindles and moulded se...

A Victorian period box-shaped ottoman. The sides are upholstered in an old (and possibly original) burgundy-colored velvet above a wooden molding that has been grain-painted to simul...

Elegant pair of small padded benches covered in grey-blue fabric. The legs are turned and made of "guazzo" gilded wood in pure gold. Of refined Tuscan workmanship dating back to the ...

This pair of walnut Louis XVI -Style chairs have great proportion With a slightly domed back that is padded. They are newly Upholstered with a fine linen designer fabric. The fini...

GUSTAV STICKLEY Early American Craftsman Mission Quarter Sawn Oak Youth Rocker 1900s. Early American Antique Piece Of Furniture and History. This Early Antique Craftsman Mission Quarter Sawn Oak Rocker Is Also Known As A Sewing Rocker. This Early American Arts and Crafts Rocker...

Timeless elegance! This is a pair of French Louis XVI style bergere chairs upholstered in a neutral linen that coordinates with the painted frames. The paint appears to be original a...

19th Century Italian hall bench was sculpted from fine walnut, and features an elaborately scrolled design including a boldly arched seatback embell...

Pair of Swiss alp escabelle dated 1874 and signed

Very beautiful rare corner chair on which one can sit comfortably. The corner chair dates from around 1870 in Germany, from the Wilhelminian period. The chair was made of solid walnut. The seat has a so-called Viennese braiding...

A french 19th century carved walnut metamorphic bergere, armchair that easily folds out to a bed. This highly decorative chair is wonderful to look at, large enough for a tall person to use comfortably and is very pratical for extra sleeping on a space that you don't want a permanent bed set up. This is an exceptional chair...

A Handsome Piece, 19th Century X Framed Desk Chair The chair has a carved walnut frame, it has new dark Green leather studded upholstery, this is a large and very comfortable seat ...

Pair of Italian 19th century Baroque carved arm throne chairs. The pair with figural carvings and putti sleeping on beds of leafs, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732). The ornately carved thrones, each flanked with figures of standing males supporting a branch-carved armrests with vines. Raised on cabriolet scrolled legs. Andrea Brustolon (20 July 1662–25 October 1732) was an Italian sculptor in wood. He is known for his furnishings in the Baroque style and devotional sculptures. Biography He was trained in a vigorous local tradition of sculpture in his native Belluno, in the Venetian terraferma, and in the studio of the Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi, who was carrying out commissions at Padua and at Venice (1677). He spent the years 1678-1680 at Rome, where the High Baroque sculpture of Bernini and his contemporaries polished his style. Apart from that, the first phase of Brustolon's working career was spent in Venice, 1680–1685. Brustolon is documented at several Venetian churches where he executed decorative carving in such profusion that he must have quickly assembled a large studio of assistants. As with his contemporary in London, Grinling Gibbons almost all the high quality robust Baroque carving in Venice has been attributed to Brustolon at one time or another. In the Venetian Ghetto, at the Scola Levantina, Brustolon provided the woodwork for the synagogue on the piano nobile, where the carved, canopied bimah is supported on Solomonic columns, which Brustolon had seen in Bernini's baldacchino in the Basilica of St Peter's. His furniture included armchairs with figural sculptures that take the place of front legs and armrest supports, inspired by his experience of Bernini's Cathedra Petri. The gueridon, a tall Stand for a candelabrum, offered Brustolon unhampered possibilities for variations of the idea of a caryatid or atlas: the familiar Baroque painted and ebonized figural gueridons, endlessly reproduced since the 18th century, found their models in Brustolon's work. His secular commissions from Pietro Venier, of the Venier di San Vio family (a suite of forty sculptural pieces that can be seen in the Sala di Brustolon of the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice), from the Pisani of Strà, and from the Correr di San Simeone families encourage the attribution to him of some extravagantly rich undocumented moveable furniture. Andrea Brustolon's elaborate carved furniture aspired towards the condition of sculpture, such as the Dutch bases for console tables which look like enlargements of the work of the two Van Vianens, Paulus and Adam, perhaps the greatest Dutch silversmiths of the period. These carved pieces display the Baroque tendency to develop a form three-dimensionally in space. Brustolon's walnut, boxwood and ebony pieces transcend ordinary functional limitations of furniture; they are constructed of elaborately carved figures. The framework of Brustolon's chairs, side tables and gueridons were carved as gnarled tree branches, with further supports of putti and male figures carved in ebony. Backrests of the chairs, which were never touched in the rigidly upright posture that contemporary etiquette demanded, were carved with allegories of vanity, fire and music, etc. The most extravagant piece delivered for Pietro Venier was a large side table and vase-stand of box and ebony, designed as a single ensemble to display rare imported Japanese porcelain vases. The eclectic allegories include Hercules with the Hydra and Cerberus, males and reclining river-gods (see ref.). For the Correr, less extrovert chairs bear female nudes extended along the armrests. For the Pisani, he carved a suite of twelve chairs (now at the Palazzo Quirinale) with flowers, fruit, leaves and branches to symbolize the twelve months of the year. Work by Brustolon is at the Villa Pisani at Stra. In 1685 Brustolon returned to the house where he was born at Belluno, and from that time devoted himself mainly to tabernacles and devotional sculptures in walnut, boxwood or ivory. His polychromed ivory Corpus from a crucifix is in the Museo Civico di Belluno, which preserves some of Brustolon's preparatory drawings for frames to be carved with putti displaying emblems. A pair of boxwood sculptures, The Sacrifice of Abraham and Jacob Wrestling with the Angel...

Pair of English Victorian bamboo armchairs with half moon design back and paisley upholstered seat (PRICED AS PAIR).  

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely full sized Antique Victorian Thonet circa 1880 rocking chair with hand carved back and seat pane...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely original Victorian hand carved Claw & Ball Cabriolet legged stool based on a George III design A very decorative and well made piece, the top has a period Victorian embroidery...