carver or elbow chairs - chairs, singles/pairs
Carver chair. Essentially, a dining chair with arms. Also called an elbow chair. Usually made in pairs with dining suites and are consequently much rarer than standard dining chairs. Presumably they got their name from the fact that the master of the house would sit in one at the head of the table while carving the joint.
Carver chairs are always larger in size, both height and width, than its equivalent side chair. A 'long' set of chairs that includes two carver chairs will always command a considerable price premium over a set of side chairs of the same number. Be aware that sometimes side chairs have had arms added at a later date to create carvers. In this case the giveaway is that the dimensions of the carver chairs will be the same as side chairs.
Carver chairs are always larger in size, both height and width, than its equivalent side chair. A 'long' set of chairs that includes two carver chairs will always command a considerable price premium over a set of side chairs of the same number. Be aware that sometimes side chairs have had arms added at a later date to create carvers. In this case the giveaway is that the dimensions of the carver chairs will be the same as side chairs.
66 item(s) found, 1-50 shown:
A George III mahogany carver, the pierced back splat with interlocking gothic design motif above an upholstered seat, on tapered legs
A cedar carver chair with caned seat circa 1860 Australian
A cedar hard seated carver chair circa 1870 Down swept arms and turned legs
A William IV mahogany scroll armed carver chair
A carver chair circular seat spindle supporting arms and back four turned legs supporting
A Georgian Hepplewhite mahogany carver chair.
A Victorian cedar carver chair with turned front legs
Early Victorian mahogany scroll arm carver chair
A Tasmanian old cedar red painted carver c1860 89 x 53x 52 cm
A Hepplewhite mahogany carver chair with shaped reeded cresting rail reeded upright splats and out swept arms on square tapering supports
An early Victorian mahogany carver chair, with curved top rail and horizontal splat with lotus decoration on reeded tapering supports
An English mahogany carver chair in the Regency manner
Mahogany carver chair with arched top pierced upright splat, out swept arms on square tapering supports
A pair of bamboo effect carver chairs in the Georgian style, 90 cm high
A George III mahogany carver chair, the rectangular crest rail above a pierced feather splat and two out swept arms terminating in scrolls, with a drop in seat, raised on square section legs United by cross stretchers
A Victorian mahogany carver chair with a shaped cresting rail, a shaped splat with out swept arms, and drop in seat on ring turned supports
A George III mahogany carver, the bowed crest rail above an openwork back and out swept arms, the button seat raised on square supports and cross stretchers
A pair of Regency mahogany carver chairs each with anthemion decorated cresting rails and splats with a drop in seat on sabre legs
A 19th century Viennese mahogany carver, the bowed back with a carved splat above out swept arms, above a caned seat, fluted legs
A 19th century mahogany carver, the curved crest rail and reeded splat with fluted arms and legs
A French provincial oak ladder carver with rush seat
A pair of mahogany William IV carver chairs, circa 1830, the shaped spade backs over a carved and shaped chair rail, curved timber arms to a door in upholstered seat on turned and fluted legs. Height 87 cm. Width 68 cm. Depth 54 cm
An oak carver chair, 1680 and later, the elaborately carved back above a plank seat, scroll arms and a band frieze, on shaped legs and stretchers
A George III mahogany carver chair, English, 19th century
A George III style Chinese Chippendale style carver chair, English, circa 19th century mahogany
An Australian cedar carver, by Andrew Lenehan, with a spade back and down swept arms, upholstered in deep red jacquard fabric; makers label to the frame
An Australian cedar and caned carver of large proportions, the curved top rail above a plain curved cross rail, downswept arms on turned supports above a caned seat (damaged) and raised on turned tapering legs;
An Italian walnut carver, 18th century, with an upholstered tapestry back and seat, shaped arms and cross stretcher base
A George III mahogany carver, the shield back above a pale yellow shaped upholstered seat
A George III mahogany carver, the pierced shield back with carved floral and foliate motifs and out scrolled arms, above an upholstered green leather saddle seat on square tapered legs
Regency (Irish) mahogany carver chair with leaf and scroll moulded top rail and splat, fluted scrolling arms on sabre legs
A blackwood carver chair and single chair, Victorian, circa 1910, 103 x 50 x 43 cm attributed to Smith, Geelong or Bellarine Peninsular. Ref: G. Cornall, Memories 1990 p. 170-171. Slat backs and rush seats, peg joinery carver. Width 50 cm. Depth 43 cm .…
A set of six substantial Tasmanian oak carver chairs Crinoline stretchers under, fluted front legs one chair larger reserved for the chairman on the board. Provenance: Ex John Fairfax boardroom, Sydney
A pair of northern European birchwood carver chairs, 19th century, each with a central splat flanked by two spindles above an upholstered seat on tapering square legs
Edwardian blackwood carver chair, embroidered seat and back with folk-art scenes of horses and flowers. 99 x 61 cm
A pair of early Victorian mahogany carver chairs. English, upholstered to match
A mahogany Chippendale style carver, 19th century the shaped crest rail with central pierced splat over a serpentine seat raised on reeded front legs; plaque to the underside of the seat printed 'Frank Partridge 26 Kings Street, St James and New York '
A set of four George III mahogany dining chairs comprising a carver and three side chairs, the carver with studded leather saddle back and seat flanked by scrolling out swept arms terminating in carved lions heads,…
A beech wood and cane carver, English, late 17th century the pierced and carved back with elongated supports, above cane seat and 'H' stretcher base
A mahogany carver chair, English, 18th century the pierced back splat above upholstered seat on square stretcher base
An important cedar carved rail back carver chair Tasmanian on finely turned legs old worn finish. Provenance: Ex Hooper collection
Colonial full cedar carver/smokers chair on turned legs
Colonial cedar carver chair on facetted legs with scrolled arms
Colonial cedar country style carver chair
Grecian arm chair This modified Regency Greek revival style kauri armchair May have been intended as a 'Carver' for the head of the table. Correctly upholstered in black leather it was more likely to have been a fireside chair for 'The man of the house'.…
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