Early Victorian Seating

This is an antique prie dieu chair, a 19th century, early Victorian chair in walnut with a needlepoint tapestry seat cover. Ideal as a bedroom side chair and dating to circa 1840. ...

This stunning pair of Victorian hand-carved walnut ladies chairs are nothing short of breathtaking when you see them in an environment. They've spent the last 50 years of their lives...

This is a very attractive, unusual and original English foot stool from very early in the Victorian period of the 19th century, circa 1840. The foot stool has a rare and very deco...

A set of ten mid 19th Century English oak balloon back dining chairs having rounded upholstered backs with molded edges, the over upholstered seats having molded rails, standing on t...

Superb quality antique early Victorian ornate cast iron garden seat having a cast iron shaped back and arms with ornate pierced decoration, fantastic ornate seat with pierced scrolle...

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

Circa 1840 English armorial hall chair. Mahogany. Raised on turned, tapered, vasi-form legs with ring turnings. Shaped back with fan crest, well molded, with central medallion with f...

This is an antique ottoman footstool. An English, upholstered mahogany lounge or dressing stool dating to the Victorian period, circa 1860. A...

With dyed leather seat.

Antique English 19th Century Lacquered Mother of Pearl Papier-mâché Gilt Detailed Side Chair C.1840 In very good condition commensurate of age. Please message for an accurate shipp...

A charming Victorian mahogany window seat of diminutive proportions with a simple broad seat accompanied with turned bolsters to either end. Raised on beautifully turned legs and su...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning exceptionally rare pair of original early Victorian Howard & Son’s Berners street cigar brown leather, fully restored Chesterfield bu...

Antique French mahogany dining chair. 32" high, 18" wide and 18" deep. This item is very rare and appears to be at least 200 years old. It probably belonged to a larger set of chairs...

19th Century papier- mâché / paper mache chair with lacquer paint and a caned seat. The pierced slipper back form is beautiful with gilding design...

Rare fully stamped Victorian 1840 hoop back Windsor chair High Wycombe. Beautiful patina, wonderful workmanship and remarkably comfortable. Very sturdy...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of fully restored early Victorian circa 1840 William Morris Wingback armchairs with hand ...

Victorian walnut-stained beech campaign style day bed with caned seat designed to be folded up it's ratcheted on all three sections to adjust to numerous positions including flat, se...

Series of 8 English chairs, made around 1910, chair with high back in carved solid mahogany, green leather upholstery.

These rare, exclusive seats are crafted from oak. The craftsmanship is masterful: the stool legs are perfectly turned and the ornate center sections are hand-sawn and beautifully fin...

~~CHARMING Antique English PAIR of Carved Oak Wainscot Highbacked Armchairs~~ Classic English charm and style~~ with scrolling dragon crest and scrolled arms, turned post legs, remo...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare circa 1850 hand made in Venice Italy carved Fruitwood rocking armchair depicting Sea horses, Cherubs, and gothic gargoyles...

A Mid-19th H. Holtzman French Walnut and Iron Piano Stool with Ball Claw Feet Measures 14" in width, 14" in depth and adjustable seat height of 19" to 23"

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 love seat. An English, walnut and textile duet bench or dog bed, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1840. Beautifully...

This is an antique footstool. An English, walnut and textile bedroom or lounge stool, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Charming Victorian example with great colour...

A finely crafted adjustable piano stool, featuring a round, upholstered seat and three elegantly curved cabriole legs converging at a central spindle column. The stool exemplifies th...

A cute little mid 19th century country house chaise longue. English c1840 with a beautifully curvaceous walnut frame raised on the original gilt brass casters and short turned legs. ...

Custom made benches with classic form upholstered in faux crewel fabric with piping and tassels, featuring 19th century turned Victorian legs.

A superb early 19th Century example of R W Winfield Iron Rocking Chair. History The firm of R.W. Winfield, one of the largest and most celebrated of English brassfounders, who ex...

Outstanding quality set of eight antique Victorian mahogany Irish Chippendale style dining chairs, consisting of a pair of elbow ...

Early 19thC Mahogany Desk Chair - with Bergere Seat, Turned Stretchers, Spindle Back and Lignum Vitae Castors - 24"w x 24"d x 33"h (19" to the seat)

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning and very rare full restored circa 1840-1860 Harpists Muscians chair with hand dyed brown leath...

A shapely mid 19th century country house armchair. Raised on turned and carved walnut front legs with splayed rear legs and all with brass casters. The chair has particularly nice fo...

Lovely circa 1830s English black painted open armchair with decorative flower and leaf painted frieze to the back. The canning to the seat has been redone over time and is in good co...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite, very large, Circa 1840's Hand carved Mahogany, fully restored Chesterfield brown ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of eight original, early Victorian circa 1840, hand carved Jacobean revival dining chairs...

19th century Gothic revival oak stool, the shaped rectangular top above Gothic supports and stretcher, circa 1860.

A large English carved and water gilded settee of fine quality, with shell crest, scrolled corners and decorated with English roses and foliage throughout. Newly upholstered in faux ...

A Fine Quality Early Victorian Period Mahogany Library or desk Armchair, c.1840 Newly upholstered in finely buttoned burgundy leather which has been subtly patinated and aged, this ...

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...

A wonderful Victorian rosewood library chair in green plush, on original brass castors, in excellent overall condition.

P0170 Fine quality and very elegant Victorian dressing table or piano stool in Goncalo Alves having new upholstery with cream top cover and four car...

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

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 charming early 19th-century High Period-style oak stool A rare small stool, which is uncommon, featuring a superb turned leg base Very beautiful rectangular top with a corbin break...

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...

We delight to offer for sale this Stunning early Victorian ebonised and gilt painted papier mache hall chair with upholstered seat and back raised on spiral turned supports . Circa 1...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely sublime, museum quality extra large Wingback armchair with ornately carved Claw & Ball legs What a chair, you will never see ano...

A stunning, high-quality early Victorian period mid-19th-century carved and moulded mahogany frame upholstered armchair. It features a reclining, open, spoon-shaped back and scroll-e...

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...

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...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely fully restored Victorian reclining chaise lounge armchair A very good looking well made and except...

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

Wonderful antique Victorian quality carved walnut freestanding stool, having a quality carved walnut shaped frieze standing on four shaped carved walnut cabriole legs with scroll fee...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning early Victorian Porters barrel back armchair with fluted back This chair a real tour de force, is has ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely early Victorian mahogany hand carved library reading armchair which is part of a suite This ...

This is a very attractive, unusual and original English Footstool from very early in the Victorian period of the 19th century, circa 1840. The foot stool has a rare and very decorative octagonal shape, the frame being made from walnut over a softwood frame. The walnut has a lovely mellow colour and patination from over 150 years of use. The stool has three original white ceramic bun feet. It has been re-upholstered in a woven floral tapestry fabric...

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

This is a large antique fireside stool. An English, walnut footstool, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850. Generously sized stool with an attractive frame Displays a d...

We are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning pair of antique English oak hand carved hall prayer chairs These are a very early Victorian pair, quite a primate by de...