Set of 4 Carved Oak Chairs
Item #: AF0865
Description: Set of 4 elaborately turned and hand carved side chairs. Back splats of each chair depicts a unique, detailed carved image of a family member, 2 men and 2 women. Seats are decorated with carved rosette and swirling foliage design. 3 of the set have plain crest rails, 1 with carved arch and spindles.
Materials: Oak.
Dimensions: Height: 42", 19" to seat. Width: 17-1/2". Depth: 16".
Locality and Period: European. c. 1870.
Comments: Sturdy and handsome set of carved French Brittany Chairs can be used as hall or dining chairs.
Price: $595.00 Set
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Nichols & Stone Stenciled Settee
Item #: AF0867
Description: Sette topped with stenciled straight rail. Back stile rising from formed seat having 9 arrow shaped slats. Arms flared from stiles and seat with turned supports. Turned legs and stretchers. Rail stencil decorated in fruit baskets and foliage.
Materials: Walnut and other hardwoods.
Dimensions: Height: 33", 16-1/2"seat. Width: 35". Depth: 17".
Locality and Period: signed "Nichols & Stone Gardner, Ma.". c.1950.
Comments: The Nichols & Stone company has been manufacturing fine Windsor style chairs and settees since the mid-1800's. Although this example is from the 20th century it is constructed in the traditional form having no nails or screws.
Price: $395.00
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Victorian Platform Rocking Chair
Item #: AF-rocker
Description: Cane seat platform rocker with turned stiles and finials. Upper and lower rails support fan shaped back with wicker decoration. Seat mounted on curved rockers which in turn are set on lower platform with iron springs.
Materials: Walnut. Cane seat (restored). Iron springs. Casters.
Dimensions: Height: 37", 14-1/2" to seat. Width: 19". Depth: 26".
Locality and Period: Throughout the United States. c. 1890.
Comments: Platform rockers were common during the second half of the 19th century and were made in factories across the country..
Price: $149.00
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Small Button Tufted Love Seat
Item #: AF0871
Description: Small sofa with curved back and flared arms. Tufted cushion and back with pleated skirt.
Materials: Various hardwood frame and legs. Green button tufted upholstery.
Dimensions: Height: 35". Width: 48". Depth: 30".
Locality and Period: Throughout the United States. c. 1930.
Comments: Diminutive in size this love seat would serve well in a small window area or bedroom.
Price: $235.00
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Sheraton Mahogany Regency Armchair
Item #: AF0863
Description: Armchair in klismos shape. Rectangular top rail of solid mahogany with figured mahogany panel curving in at center. Reeded stiles curved back toward top rail. Carved, curved rail set midway across tapered stiles. Stop-reeded arms curving away from rear stiles to vase-shaped front supports. Round front legs tapered, reeded and turned with ring and ball over arrow feet. Plain rear legs flared back from seat to floor.
Materials: Mahogany solids and veneers. Oak secondary. Modern Upholstery.
Dimensions: Height: 34", 18-1/2" to seat. Width: 20-1/2". Depth: 20".
Locality and Period: England. c. 1815.
Comments: This elegant Sheraton design in the klismos form was introduced at the beginning of the 19th century. Very similar to examples by Duncan Phyfe in America.
Price: SOLD
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Victorian Golden Oak tete-a-tete
Item #: AF0835
Description: Conversational seat, or tete-a-tete, with 2 wide balloon-form backs tapering to a pierced & leafy, carved scroll-cut section above shaped rectangular seat facing opposite directions. Curved end arms over turned spindles & arm supports. Turned legs joined by turned stretchers.
Materials: Quartersawed oak and oak.
Dimensions: Height: 36", 17" to seat. Width: 42". Depth: 26.
Locality and Period: Factories throughout the East and Midwest. c. 1890-1900.
Comments: Innovative forms like the tete-a-tete, a 2-seat conversational seat, were first introduced in the 1820's and 1830's and became more popular as the century continued. Such unusual designs fitted easily into the fashionably eclectic decor of the Victorian 1890's.
Price: $1,195.00
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Carved Needlepoint Corner Chair
Item #: AF0810
Description: Corner chair with curved top rail having carved foliage, fruit and face in center; arms ending in carved lions head handholds. 3 vase-turned and carved stiles seperated by 2 wide carved splats having eagle head and foliage and vine motifs. Rectangular needlepoint upholstered seat with inner springs. Seat rails extending to form fluted, ring and vase legs. Seat rails scalloped and carved.
Materials: Walnut. Needlepoint upholstery.
Dimensions: Height: 17" to seat, 30-1/2". Width: 24". Depth: 24".
Locality and Period: Possibly Midwest. c.1870-85
Comments: Corner chairs, also called roundabouts, were used at desks as well as in corners. The superb carving detail and execution make this chair a particularly rare and desirable example.
Price: $895.00
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Oak Hall Bench
Item #: AF0785
Description: X
Materials: Quartersawed solid oak & veneers. Brass pulls.
Dimensions: Height: 38". Width: 46". Depth: 17".
Locality and Period: X
Comments: X
Price: $695.00
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Carved Faces Side Chair
Item #: AF0644
Description: X
Materials: X
Dimensions: Height: 36-1/2", 18" to seat . Width: 16". Depth: 18".
Locality and Period: X
Comments: X
Price: $245.00
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Colonial Revival Corner Chair
Item #: AF0719
Description: Corner chair with curved top rail with arms curving down from rail into front supports and continuing as side legs. Back consisting of three pierced pendant shaped splats. Three cabriole legs and and plain rear leg. Seat almost diamond shaped with seperate upholstered cushion.
Materials: Mahogany & mixed hardwood analyne dyed mahogany. Uphostered seat and seat base.
Dimensions: Height: 16" to seat; 31". Width: 28". Depth: 28".
Locality and Period: Furniture centers throughout the United States. c. 1920.
Comments: Colonial Revival forms generally follow designs of the 17th, 18th and early 19th century. This chair follows a simplified Queen Anne style.
Price: $95.00
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Walnut "Jenny Lind" Poster Baby Bed
Item #: AF0845
Description: Short child's bed with 4 matching spool-turned high posts with turned and carved flame finials. Slender spool-turned spindles connecting top and lower rails. Rail height rectangular blocks at the corners continue down to turned legs and cylindrical feet. Plain side rails fitted with cross slats to support mattress.
Materials: Walnut. Oak secondary.
Dimensions: Height: 48". Width: 37-3/4". Depth: 21-3/4".
Locality and Period: Throughout the United States. c. 1875.
Comments: Johanna Maria Lind (October 6, 1820 – November 2, 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer , often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. Many places and objects have been named for Lind, during her visit to America, she was reported to have slept in a bed with turned spindles, leading to the naming of the style of crib or baby bed with vertical bars on all sides as a "Jenny Lind crib" (or cot or cradle).
Price: $295.00
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