ladies/gents (grandmother/father) - chairs, singles/pairs
Gentleman's chair. Ladies chair. A gentleman's chair, gent's chair or grandfather chair is a term usually applied in Australia to a deep upholstered Victorian easy chair, often button-backed and with upholstered arms. The chair generally stood on short cabriole legs and had a 'spoon' or a wide balloon back. The 'show wood', that is, the polished frame, was usually mahogany or walnut, although many examples in Australian red cedar have survived.
There are Australian versions of the gentleman's chair, ladies chair and matching settees, usually made from cedar, and occasionally from blackwood. As cedar is a softer timber than walnut, mahogany and rosewood, from which the English versions were made, the carving is usually not as crisp as in the imported version. However the Australian blackwood gentleman's chair is often difficult to distinguish from a good quality English walnut example.
The Edwardian form of the gentleman's chair is much squarer in outline, with short turned legs and the arms are often supported by spindles. There was sometimes a row of spindles, like a gallery, beneath the top rail. The chairs were frequently upholstered in leather. more...
There are Australian versions of the gentleman's chair, ladies chair and matching settees, usually made from cedar, and occasionally from blackwood. As cedar is a softer timber than walnut, mahogany and rosewood, from which the English versions were made, the carving is usually not as crisp as in the imported version. However the Australian blackwood gentleman's chair is often difficult to distinguish from a good quality English walnut example.
The Edwardian form of the gentleman's chair is much squarer in outline, with short turned legs and the arms are often supported by spindles. There was sometimes a row of spindles, like a gallery, beneath the top rail. The chairs were frequently upholstered in leather. more...
102 item(s) found, 1-50 shown:
A pair 19th century Anglo Indian ebony gentleman's chairs, each with pierced carved cresting, above buttoned back and arms, below carved front rail, on cabriole legs.
A large Victorian walnut Grandmother chair upholstered in beige velvet-corduroy striped fabric
A 19th century grandmother chair walnut frame brocade upholstered
A 19th century walnut frame grandfather chair with green velvet upholstery
An Edwardian ladies chair walnut frame
A late 19th century mahogany ladies chair with buttoned back on cabriole supports
A grandfather chair cedar frame gold velvet deep button upholstered
A grandfather chair cedar frame green wool upholstered
A Victorian grandmother chair polished timber frame red leather upholstered
A 19th century pair of ladies' armchairs in pink upholstery with a border of tassels
A Victorian grandfather chair green floral brocade upholstered
A Victorian walnut grandfather chair with carved flowerheads above an oval buttoned upholstered back arms and seat
A fine late Victorian walnut open arm gentleman's chair, ebony inlaid with satinwood marquetry
A late 19th century Victorian mahogany spoon-back gentleman's chair, with loose cushion
Two Victorian walnut framed lady?S chairs
An early Victorian Japanned ladies chair with handmade cane seat inlaid with mother of pearl. Paper label affixed 'Rocke and Co' Melbourne
A Victorian walnut gentleman's chair with spoon back and padded arms and carved cabriole supports terminating in porcelain castors
A Victorian walnut gentleman's armchair, English, circa 1860, 100 cm high
An English Victorian mahogany grandfather chair
Victorian walnut open arm gentleman's chair
A Victorian spoon backed ladies' chair with a pale walnut frame, scroll carved top rail and standing on cabriole legs
A Victorian walnut framed lady's chair with floral carving to top rail and standing on short cabriole front legs, circa 1860. Height 94 cm
A Victorian gentleman's open arm chair in carved mahogany frame together with a matching foot stool
A Victorian mahogany lady's chair and gentleman's chair, each with a buttoned back, raised on scroll carved legs, brass caps and porcelain castors
A pair of Australian Colonial 19th century cedar gentleman's chairs each with arched cresting surmounted button back with upholstered arms with shaped front on cabriole supports
Victorian walnut ladies chair with ornate back
An unusual small Chinese ivory box made from four tapered tusk sections, the lid well carved with a shaped cartouche of figures in a domestic landscape. Together with a small carved figure of a lady sitting in a chair. Old damage. Length 8.3 cm
Chairs pair Victorian walnut framed Grandmother & grandfather
A Victorian walnut grandfather and grandmother chairs (2)
A Victorian cedar ladies chair, circa 1870, illustrated 19th century
A Viennese gilt metal and enamel miniature salon suite 19th/20th century, impressed Austria, comprising a grand piano, a table and five chairs, a footstool and a chaise,…
An early Victorian walnut gentleman's chair, surmounted by carved cresting rail, with padded arms, on carved cabriole supports
A Victorian walnut gents chair, the circular button upholstered back flanked by outswept arms above a fitted seat raised on fluted legs, porcelain castors, the whole ornately carved and pierced with foliate and berry decoration.
Victorian walnut ladies chair with carved cresting on cabriole supports
A fine Continental mid 19th century walnut gentlemans chair with a buttoned back, surmounted by an ornately carved pierced cresting rail with a carved shaped front on cabriole supports
A pair of late Victorian amboyna and mother of pearl inlaid ebonised lady's and gentleman's chairs, each having a velvet upholstered medallion back within bowed, reeded supports, with amboyna and mother of pearl inlaid patera, fluted and turned legs,…
A Victorian walnut lady's chair, the padded tablet back with a carved floriate cresting, above a serpentine seat with carved cabriole legs
A Capacious Victorian walnut gents chair with a carved floral crest and seat rail, scrolling arms and legs
A Victorian style mahogany and leather gentleman's chair, the shaped, button upholstered back above scroll carved arms and a fitted seat, cabriole legs
A pair of fine quality Victorian walnut ladies and gents chairs, possibly Irish, circa 1860. 92 x 63 x 84 cm
A Victorian buttonback grandfather chair of similar design to the above on cabriole legs. Height 111 cm
A Victorian mahogany gentlemans chair carved shaped back cabriole legs supporting deep button velvet upholstered
A Victorian carved walnut ladies nursing chair
Victorian cedar grandfather armchair upholstered with deep Button back
A Victorian walnut lady's chair, the circular button upholstered back above a fitted seated raised on fluted legs, porcelain castors, the whole ornately carved and pierced with foliate and berry decoration.