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CLICK ON IMAGES FOR DETAIL 3-2-2002 Pair of Charles X Period arm chairs with upholstered mahogany frames. The square framed back supports an upholstered back panel. The mahogany seat frame is upholstered to a mahogany seat rail. The arms thrust forward from the stiles, terminating in a scrolled lamb's tongue on a supporting scrolled element mortised into the seat frame die, above the front legs. France, circa 1830. |
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5-9-2002 American upholstered mahogany frame balloon back side chair on turned and carved front legs and sabred rear legs. In the Louis XVI taste. Baltimore, circa 1855. |
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5-9-2001 Sheraton cane and mahogany bergere library chair with reeded front legs and raked rear legs on their original cast brass cup and casters. The chair frame has been fitted with boxed seat and back cushions and upholstered elbow rests. English Regency period, ca. 1815. |
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10-11-95B American Hepplewhite square back side chair on square tapered legs joined by an "H" stretcher. The upper back leg posts, crest rail and back rail form a square, framing three pierced vertical urn splats. The half rail upholstered seat is defined by brass tacking above the mahogany lower half of the seat rails. This form of Federal seating was particularly popular in New York where it appears in "The New York Book of Prices for Cabinet and Chair Work, 1802." The primary wood is mahogany with birch secondary framing and corner brace wood. Circa 1800. See: "Federal Furniture" by Charles Montgomery, Viking Press, NY, 1966. Page 115, fig. 65. |
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11-10-2004 American mahogany Chippendale slip seat side chair on square molded legs joined by an "H" stretcher. Boston, circa l775. Original finish, replaced slip seat upholstery frame covered in historic blue marine wool, damask design. |
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10-16-2001A American Neoclassic arm chair of solid walnut with upholstered slip seat. The crest rail is mortised into the upper leg posts above a narrow back rail. Ram's horn arms project forward from the upper leg posts to the front of the side rails where they are joined to the seat fram with pairs of stacked ball turnings. The chair rests on raked rear legs and sabre front legs. Pennsylvania, circa 1815. |
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112300W Pair of American Neo Classic mahogany and figured mahogany veneered, slip seat gondola chairs in the French Restoration taste. New York, circa 1830. |
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061001T Mahogany Sheraton piano stool with upholstered seat. The four play legs are finished with a tapered reeding and joined with an "X" stretcher. The upholstered seat is height adjustable by means of a hand-threaded screw under the top. New York, circa 1810-15. |
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20. Set of six American mahogany Klismos form slip seat side chairs with Neo Classic inspired carving on the back and crest rails. Gadroon carved molding caps the crest rail. Boston, circa 1825. |
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61598A American Federal mahogany upholstered-seat side chairs on reeded sabre legs with flared foot. The London cabinetmaker's book of prices for workmanship of this period describes a scrollback chair with bell-shaped seat, swept Grecian back legs and swept front legs with a hollow below the cross banister; and rates are listed for reeding each element. This describes these chairs which were popular in New York at the time. In these examples the reeded upper rear leg posts frame a solid crest rail over a matching horizontal back rail and lower frame and corner blocks, white pine medial brace and oak rear seat rail. Fragmented nailers were spliced with new poplar, mahogany surfaces cleaned and finished in shellac. Two corner blocks are replacements. New York, School of Duncan Pfyfe, circa 1800-10. |
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 21700 Set of six Neo Classic Sheraton mahogany
slip seat chairs consisting of four sides and two ram's horn
arms. The chairs are defined by the rounded end crest rail over
a back rail and the turned front legs. The chairs are constructed
of mahogany and figured mahogany veneers with Eastern white pine
upholstered seats with beech and birch secondary framing woods.
Boston, circa 1810-20. |
