French - chairs - sets of 4
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.
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A set of four late 19th century French oak and upholstered single chairs
A set of four faux bamboo bedroom chairs, French, circa 1880
A set of four French 18th century Louis XV cream-painted fauteuils a la Reine, by Antoine Nicolas Delaporte, Paris,each with channelled backrail centred to the top by carved flowers, the padded back and armrests on scroll supports,…
Four French 19th century dining chairs, each with rectangular curved backs on square seats and square tapering legs, one with turned column legs, three stamped with various numbers and a Crown above Sl, for the chÔteau de Saint-Leu, one stamped Jacob. D.…
A fine set of four 19th century French Louis XV style ornately carved bergere chairs upholstered in floral brocade
A set of four Louis XV fauteuils stamped P.Forget, French 18th century. Height 87 cm. Width 48 cm. Pierre Forget 1723-1789 Maitre Ebeniste in 1755
Set of 4 antique Louis XV style fruit wood chairs
A set of four early late 19th century French provincial carved beech wood chairs, each with a rush sea, the wheel motif on the back splats typical of the Brittany region
Set of four silver and gold leafed Louis XVI chairs with watermelon coloured velvet upholstery