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 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,…
Antique cedar hall chair with shell back, and turned front legs
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,…
An early 19th century Australian colonial cedar hall chair with ornate oval carved back and wooden seat on carved sabre supports.
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,…
