hall - chairs, singles/pairs
Hall chair. A small wooden chair with a wooden seat and a shaped back, usually of a spoon shape, containing a shield on which the family crest was sometimes painted or carved. They were placed in the entrance halls of large houses and are exceedingly uncomfortable and present day purchases are for decorative rather than practical use. Suggestions that they were purposely made uncomfortable, to discourage the servants from sitting down on the job, are probably exaggerated. Hall chairs were designed by Chippendale among others, and the general style continued for at least the next century.
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A pair of early Victorian mahogany hall chairs, each with bobbin turned upright splats and wooden seat, stamped Gillows Lancaster.
A set of Victorian mahogany metamorphic library steps in the form of a hall seat, the hinged body folding to form three steps.
A pair of mahogany hall chairs with carved shield shaped backs
A Continental 19th century walnut hall chair, the cresting well carved above a period tapestry upholstered back and seat on carved cabriole legs
A pair of 19th century Australian cedar hall chairs with moulded and open shield form backs, shaped seats and moulded legs
A pair of William IV mahogany hall chairs, the shaped back with scrolled moulding and central cartouche above a panel seat with scroll decorated rail, raised on lobbed and turned tapering legs (2)
A 19th century carved pine hall chair and a carved blackwood Duet piano seat, the chair having a solid waisted back and a serpentine seat, raised on tapering chamfered square legs,…
A pair of George I style oak hall chairs with caned drop in seats
A pair of fine carved walnut canned hall chairs French, circa 1900
Pair of Georgian mahogany hall chairs with shield design backs on turned legs
An oak hall chair, the shaped back with an insert porcelain plaque of a sailing ship, circa 1880. Height 87 cm
A pair of 19th century French oak carved hall chairs, each with carved pierced back with mask and c scroll decoration, a wooden seat, on turned supports
Antique cedar hall chair with shell back, and turned front legs
A pair of George IV mahogany hall chairs, English, circa 1825
A Victorian rosewood hall chair decorated in the Gothic taste with stylised lapet and relief carved foliate motifs to the tablet back and fluted legs, tapestry upholstery.
An Italian walnut hall chair, 17th century, 92 cm high
A pair of George IV mahogany hall chairs, the shield shaped backs with over scrolled acanthus leaf tops and foliate sides with central empty raised shields above solid seats and raised on turned tapering legs (2). Provenance: David Jones Art gallery
An Austrian carved and inlaid walnut hall chair, circa 1900, the carved back simulating branches with oak leaves and acorns, having an inlaid and painted central medallion of goats on a rocky outcrop,…
Colonial cedar hall chair with carved back and bow front
A mahogany hall chair the sheild shaped back with an applied cartouche. Height 87.5 cm
A Victorian hall chair in mahogany, the back with circular turnings, circa 1870. Height 85 cm
A 19th century blackwood hall chair possibly Tasmanian, the waisted back boldly carved with overlapping leaf tips and feather motifs, centred by an armorial crest, the solid seat above an ogee moulded rail,…
A cedar armchair, early 19th century, the curved overhanging top rail above down swept arms on turned supports over a solid seat, plain front rail, raised on ring turned tapering legs;.…
A pair of Australian cedar hall chairs, the double foliate scrolled top above tapering ribbon grained backs over plain seats,…
An early 19th century Australian colonial cedar hall chair with ornate oval carved back and wooden seat on carved sabre supports.
A William IV mahogany hall chair, the scrolled and acanthus leaf carved back with polychrome painted crest
An Italian carved walnut hall chair, late 18th century, the shaped back and solid seat ornately pierced and carved with scrolling acanthus, putti and mask head mounts
A pair of Chinese carved hardwood hall chairs (2)
A pair of mahogany carved cameo back hall chairs, Rising on turned and fluted legs
A Victorian ebonised mahogany hall chair with upholstered seat
19th century carved Italian walnut hall chair the back with swan neck cresting rail pierced back wooden seat on shaped carved supports
A pair of 19th century oak hall chairs, having a shaped carved crest and back panel with block turned legs and stretcher
Pair of Oriental ornately carved hall chairs with carved dragon decorated arms
A pair of George II mahogany hall chairs, James Lawson, each with spoon-shaped back and seat, supported by trestle construction, joined by turned stretcher Sir Lawerence Dundas, Aske hall, Richmond, Yorkshire 1764 paper label inscribed 'Aske Yorkshire'
Heavily carved hall chair with serpent arm rests
Late Victorian hall chair heavily carved oak with Barley twist supports and stretchers fully restored
A fabulous pair of 19th century walnut and parcel gilt upholstered chairs, in the George II style after a design by Giles Grendey, the arch overstuffed back above a drop in padded seat,…
A fine pair of Australian cedar hall chairs, after a design by George Smith, the back with S-scrolled acanthus leaf decoration with empty cartouche and a tablet top with a central flowerhead, above a panel seat,…
A pair of late 19th century French Directoire style finely carved and painted hall chairs, the seats fitted with woven rattan
A pair of mid 19th century satin birch and silk upholstered German Biedermeier period hall chairs
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