Continental Walnut Chair Back Settee in the George II Taste

a handsome George II walnut open armchair / elbow chair, the shaped crest rail and supports centered by a vasiform splat, shepherd's crook arms, padded floral needlework slip seat ab...

George II carved walnut card/games table that doubles as a side table when not in use. The fold over outset shaped top opens to reveal a baize lined playing surface with candle stand...

A George II mahogany pier/tea/games bureau-table. The mahogany top is supported on a hinged back leg when opened. The top when opened conceals the game table and a harlequin pop-up c...

George II mahogany games / tea table with elegant hand-carved cabriole legs with beautiful carved knees and ball and claw feet (front legs), hinged back legs (more plain with pad fee...

a fine George II carved giltwood mirror with phoenix crest, probably Irish, Ireland, mid-18th century, circa 1750 MEASUREMENTS: 78" H x 40" W ...

a George II-style black lacquer secretary / desk with Collector's Cabinet above, gilt Chinoiserie decoration overall, some raised, cabinet above fitted out with display shelves for C...

19th century George II Carved Mahogany Triple-Back Settee. Settee has beautiful ornately carved backs and lion's head knees on cabriole legs. Needlepoint seat features flowers and fo...

A diminutive Period Georgian Settee with sinuous Carved and incised Walnut frame and having six supporting cabriole legs and a gracefully curved back frame. Condition: Some separati...

An impressive George II revival mahogany settee upholstered in red silk damask, having padded arms with lion’s head terminals raised on curved leaf carved supports. The settee with g...

A Fine Pair of George II Mahogany Chair Back Settees With curved top rails above a tapering vertical splat, joined by carved tassels, the scr...

A George II manner carved mahogany two-seat sofa with swept upholstered arms on cabriole legs carved with acanthus leaves on claw and ball feet. Upholstered with the clients own fabr...

Small Settee in the neoclassical taste Boston, Massachusetts (active 1804–17), about 1810 Mahogany (secondary woods: ash) Measures: 35 1/8 in. high, 59 3/4 in. long, 19 1/8 in. deep Although the diminutive scale of this settee places it in a unique category, the piece itself partakes of a vocabulary that is common in Boston furniture of the Late Federal period. Its sabre legs, for example, as seen straight on from the left and right ends, are closely related to the legs, as seen from the front, on a group of chairs of undisputed Boston origin, including a spectacular armchair with scrolled arms (see Stuart P. Feld, Boston in the Age of Neo-Classicism, 1810–1840, exhib. cat. [New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1999], p. 37 no. 6 illus. in color), as well as a number of side chairs, including a set made for Nathan Appleton (see Page Talbott, “Boston Empire Furniture, Part I,” The Magazine Antiques, CVII [May 1975], p. 887 fig. 12). In all, the legs are ornamented with two bold, somewhat flattened reeds set between corner beads, a pattern which is repeated here on the front and end seat rails as well. The superb quality of the piece is further demonstrated in the finely drawn profile of the arms, as well as the delicately bulbous surface of the fronts of the arms and legs. As in the best of the related chairs, the sabre legs end in delicately carved paw feet. The added refinement of the beautifully carved rosettes at both the fronts and backs of the arms suggests that the piece may have been designed to be used in the round. Stylistically harmonious with these pieces is also a group of larger sofas with frontally set sabre legs and scrolled arms (see Page Talbott, “Seating Furniture in Boston, 1810–1835,” The Magazine Antiques, CXXXIX [May 1991], p. 963 pl. 11) that represent an indigenously Boston form. Although none of the furniture in this group has been effectively attributed, they can certainly be related to various Boston card tables...