Hepplewhite style - chairs - sets of 6
Chest of drawers. Until the mid-19th century, the standard chest had either four long, or three long and two short drawers. Rarely were there any exceptions to this rule. A chest with three drawers, or a series of small upper drawers, purporting to be Georgian, will probably have been converted from a chest-on-chest or tallboy. It is true that the 18th century commode often contain two long deep drawers, but this was a much grander and more decorative piece altogether, intended for drawing rooms, not bedrooms, and in any case was usually made to stand on legs. The standard chest of drawers continued to be made throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries (some Edwardian pine chests even had bracket feet), but variations were introduced during the mid-Victorian period, with some chests having seven or more drawers usually a deep hat drawer and smaller glove compartments. Chests with barley-sugar twist or split bobbin-turned supports date from the mid-19th century.
Hepplewhite style chairs. The shield back chair is a design attributed to Hepplewhite with the back shaped like a shield often accompanied by a wheat sheaf or Prince of Wales feathers motif in the splats.
4 item(s) found:
Set of eight Hepplewhite style shield back dining chairs, two carvers and six standard chairs
Set of six 6 18th century Hepplewhite shield back mahogany dining chairs, with drop in seats, with fine carving, now upholstered in a cream silk embroidered with flowers
This set of six George III country Hepplewhite camelback chairs from East Anglia, of elm and beech, with rich, warm colour, with an appropriate woven tapestry.
Set of six Hepplewhite mahogany, shield back dining chairs with their original purchase receipt from Yorkshire in 1932