Baroque Seating

Late 17th century Italian walnut square back armchair with bobbin turned arms, legs and stretchers, the whole possessing good rich color and crisp t...

19th century carved walnut folding scissors Savonarola bench/settee Typical of the Italian Renaissance with carved Florentine backs. This pair cre...

Each with moulded cartouche-shaped padded back and seat covered in monochrome chinoiserie silk, the wavy seat rail with foliage, on cabriole legs and scroll ...

With needlepoint seat and brown gimp and brass tacks. Turned legs with turned H stretcher.

A sculptural antique English lambing chair with a rocking function, crafted in England circa 1890s. The design reflects the provincial style of traditional 19th-century lambing chair...

A set of 6 Spanish chairs with walnut structure, hand carved decoration and red velvet seat. The pieces have a bronze details in the top. These chairs are true to the Spanish charact...

18th century Swedish Baroque stool from Skelleftea Vasterbotten, Northern Sweden. A rustic & genuine old Baroque stool with fantastic patina & t...

The present piece is an unusual board chair made of walnut from the Alpine region. It is not a simple peasant chair, as evidenced by the particularly orn...

18th century Italian giltwood armchairs.

19th century English oak joint stool / bench Jacobean style stool / bench Hand crafted English oak The oak shows some distress from the past 300+ years The images here show...

Bellini's Capretta bench style - a perfect seating companion for our table collection. Trestle style with carved cross stretchers. Handcrafted to order in aged solid European oak by our Master Craftsmen in Italy. Forged iron joinery. Available in custom size by quote and a variety of wood species & finish color. Measures as shown: 72" L x 20" W x 20" H, 1.5" thick bench...

A fine Italian 19th century Baroque style carved walnut figural throne armchair, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon...

Important ebonized Baroque Venetian armchair, circa 1780 Fratelli Mora. Produced by Fratelli Mora in Bergamo, factory established in 1778. At that time the main production was made ...

Set of four dining chairs by Kreiss collection Hollywood, CA. Palazzo chairs made in the Italian Baroque style from handcrafted hardwood frames. The set...

A fine, large, late 17th century, Flemish, open armchair in the style of Daniel Marot with an upholstered seat This fine, armchair is an, unusually, large size and the carving is of exceptional quality reflecting the status of the owner it was made for. It is sturdy and in usable condition. Chairs of this type, with tall, intricately carved backs, were placed in rows against a wall forming part of the decoration of a room. The carving of the back of this chair is French in style and was based on decorative prints by Daniël Marot The cresting carved with a profusion of acanthus leaf scrolls. The back with fine, pierced carving. The mid-section with a central flowerhead with scrolled shields above and below ornamented with flowerheads acanthus leaf crestings. Two pairs of carved ‘S’ scrolls ornamented with acanthus leaves either side. The tapering turned sections surmounted by ionic capitals and supporting back of the scroll arms carved with acanthus leaf ornament. The front arms supported by baluster and tapering turned sections ornamented with acanthus leaf carving. The legs joined by a shaped ‘H’ stretcher with central finial, on bun feet. The upholstered seat reupholstered in a bargello woven in tones of blue, green, red and gold faced with braid and brass studwork. The back of the chair has an incredible, 19th century, oak support from the cresting to halfway down the back, which has been beautifully carved to conform with the open sections of the back, and two braces down the length of the back. There are also two oak supports behind seat blocks at the top of the legs. These repairs are sensitive to the model of chair and have become part of its character and features in their own right and they are very interesting from a conservation history perspective. There are two old repairs to a small break in the cresting on the right hand side and the hairline cracks are visible, an old repair to a small break in the top right of the central splat with a small piece added and a visible hairline crack. The right side of the back has noticeable worm damage on the right seat block which is probably the root cause of the break on the block on this side from impact as the chair probably fell backwards at some point and either onto its right side or it hit something on that side and the block weakened by worm gave way as the damage to the chair is localised on the far right side. Because the backs are high on these Daniel Marot chairs they are top heavy and invariably do have damage to the backs and crestings from impact damage so this is not unusual. The right block has been repaired thoroughly and is stable and there is no live worm in the chair. It would be possible to disguise these repairs but I have left them as they are consistent with the 19th century date of the supports and conform with museum standards. A full set of photographs...

Antique Pair of Figural Heavily Carved Walnut Sgabello Chairs with Baroque Motifs, 18th–19th Century A stunning pair of figural sgabello chairs, intricately carved from rich walnut ...

Pair of Spanish colonial style armchairs, having leather both seats and backs, and brass nailheads. Measure: Height to the arm: 28.74in.

Rare 18th Century Portuguese Chair in Walnut High-backed armchair à la reine in walnut, molded and carved with acanthus leaves, leafy shells and foliage, front claw feet joined by an...

A fine example of an Italian carved walnut recamier with carved crest flanked by turned posts, and arched scrollwork stretchers, with original caning, a small chain attached on verso...

Magnificent walnut hand-carved bench attributed to master artist Valentino Besarel (b. July 29 1829, d. Dec 11 1902) of Venice, Italy. Renaissance Revival. High quality; soft, fi...

A early 18th century walnut French wingback armchair. This Louis XIV model is also known as Os de Mouton or 'Sheepclaw feet'. The shape of the feet were a provincial take on the gild...

Antique pair of carved oak Baroque Italian hall chairs.

Pair of Italian Baroque-style (20th Century) armchairs with gilt wood filigree frames and burgundy button-tufted upholstery with embroidered flowers (Related items: AGO054, AGO056, A...

A rare, matched pair of ebonised armchairs from The Baroque & Baroque-Revival Periods & An Antiquarian, Baroque stool - From a private, furniture collection, acquired to represent three different periods of European manufacture & collecting of ebonised furniture...

Early 20th c., a set of 8 one of a kind dining chairs by expert NYC cabinet makers Schmieg, Hungate and Kotzian in the Italian Baroque style...

Armchair Swedish Early Baroque period gilt leather Sweden. An armchair in a generous size made during the Carolean Baroque Era 1650-1720 period in Swede...

Elegant early 19th Century Italian, Northern Tuscan, sofa. With gently curved back and gilded scroll details to each arm. Of walnut construction with hand carved details to each leg,...

Italian Baroque Throne Armchair in Nutwood Reupholstered in Velvet Gorgeous Baroque throne armchair made of full nutwood in Italy. The armchair was com...

Chairs Italian 19th Black Leather Century Italy. A pair of side chairs made during the 19th century in Italy. Upholstered in a thick black leather with brass needle...

A very fine pair of palatial Venetian walnut carved mid-19th century Baroque figural throne armchairs, 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. Provenance: The Castello di Giove in Umbria, Italy, circa 1870-1880. Height: 54 1/4 inches (137.8 cm.) Width: 37 1/4 inches (94.6 cm.) Depth: 32 inches (81.3 cm.) 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 1678-80 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 eighteenth 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...

Armchairs Pair Baroque Swedish 1650-1750 Gray Velvet Sweden. A pair of large armchairs made during the Baroque period in Sweden. Upholstered in a dark grey cotton velvet with brass n...

Spanish Sgabello carved side chair or stool depicting shields from Spain. Original polychrome It has a large crest featuring a crown.  

19th century Spanish bench or low console table with carved lye legs in two side of both legs. Original iron pull hardware and heavy and rare iron stretcher That back has the same ...

Rustic Baroque style chair from Boden Norrbotten, North of Sweden. The chair is a country furniture from the first half of the 19th century. The ...

A pair of French 19th-20th century Baroque style carved walnut and needlepoint upholstered hall throne armchairs with raised carved armrests and fluted conjoint legs. The tapestries ...

19th Century Portuguesh Pair of Side Chairs.

A fine and rare Italian 19th century Baroque style carved walnut figural settee (Sofa-Loveseat), attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon...

19th century Venetian Silver Gilt Grotto Seahorse Bench. Chic and unusual Venetian Baroque silver gilt Grotto bench, settee, canapé or banquette with se...

Excellent Set of Four 19th Century Large, Hand-Carved Wood High Back Armchairs Wonderful quality carvings, standing on curved legs which are attached by a stretcher. Details: Heigh...

Bold 18th century Portuguese period side chair with scroll and stylized lion tail carving, the upholstered balloon seat over scrolled and outward rolled apron, standing on boldly car...

Rectangular seat in need of reupholstery with barley twist legs and stretcher. Bun feet.

Attractive 19th century Italian Baroque style carved walnut armchair with beautifully scrolled arms and legs. Upholstered with white and gold fabric. Measures: Arm height is 28 i...

This antique Italian Rococo 17th century throne armchair sourced in a palazzo in Rome, features swirls, curls and foliate motif richly hand carved...

18th century, Pair of Baroque Tuscany Lacquered Wooden Benches cm W 247 x D 38 x H 120. seat H 56 cm x D 32 This pair of important baroque benches was made in Tuscany, Italy, at the ...

This early Baroque chair is made from rich Italian walnut. The broad antique frame was carved by the Italian sculptor and wood carver Andrea Fantoni, see accompanying photo. The arms...

Mid-century modern matching pair of Italian regency chiavari chairs featuring high backs. Crafted from giltwood with a lovely aged patina. The seats have been upholstered with opulen...

A Swedish period Baroque three-chair back carved-wood sofa, with upholstered seat, from the 18th century. This fabulous hand carved wood bench features three carved back splats for resting, flanked within wood arm rests at each far end. The top rail is adorn with four finials...

A beautiful 19th century Italian polychrome casapanca wood storage hall bench having a carved back with the hinged lid opening to reveal a storage well, raised on shaped bracket feet...

It's an old , nice and sturdy chest. It has a single internal space with one door to open it . The backrest is also comfortable so as not to lean against the wall: You can put a few ...

An absolutely stunning Arras Orangery chair, the highly decorative and detailed piece is in exceptional antique condition. This is the early original Arras model, bearing the Lions P...

Fine pair 18th century Swedish late baroque chairs in their original finish with great patina and proportions. Ca 1850 Sweden.

ORATORY 19th-century Portuguese painted and gilded wood. Glass doors and sides, adapted for display purposes. Dimensions: 128 x 60 x 30 cm Good condition

Opulent set of four bespoke dining chairs featuring highly carved and painted frames in the Italian baroque taste by Brustlin Workshop Hollywood, CA. Artisan Richard Brustlin (American 1935-2020) crafted custom furniture for clients and famous neighbors such as Dennis & Leen, Christopher Guy, and J. Robert Scott. These grand chairs have large generous frames with carved acanthus and rocaille decoration. They are intentionally distressed and have an aged patina on the painted finish to mimic 18th century Italian baroque chairs. The backs have a gracefully peaked crest and flat back. The seats have a rich, vintage mohair fabric...

Pair of Italian Baroque style giltwood chairs. Stunning pair of Roman Baroque style gilt wood chairs, circa 1920. These unusual gilt chairs or side chairs have been recently upholste...

Mid-18th Century baroque hand-carved 1750 Venetian walnut armchair. Straw seat not original. The 18th Century was in Venice the Golden Age and this armchair is a remarkable work by ...

Consisting of three armchairs and seven side chairs, this superb giltwood suite was made in Italy in the nineteenth century. With slight variations in t...

Sofa bench Swedish Baroque Period 1650-1750 brown black, Sweden. A sofa bench made during the Baroque Period 1650-1750 in Sweden / Northern Europe. The seat has been reupholstered in...

BELLA side chair - our exclusive 18th Century style antique reproduction side chair - handcrafted of solid Italian walnut with beautifully carved front legs and premium antique style...

Very rare rocking chair made and designed by Micheal Thonet and Anton Fix , circa 1860. The beautiful rocking chair was made with curved woodworking, a techn...

19th Century Northern Italian sofa from Tuscany. Retaining its original paint and gilded decorative elements. Upholstered in Kravet Kashmira.