Italian Neoclassical Lyre Back Chairs, Circa 1800

A pair of pale whitewashed faux bois carved wood armchairs with beautifully aged original surface color. Signed Century Furniture Company. Circa 1970. Look at all pictures and read c...

In the style of Casa Stradivari, a pair of faux rope side chairs, dining chairs with carved hard wood frames ( either beech / maple ) cane backs and woven natural palm seats...

Pair of Chinese hardwood elm yokeback armchairs "official's hat chairs" in great original vintage condition w/ glowing warm color patina. In the Qing Dynasty style. Dating from the m...

A pair of Queen Anne style armchairs in good original black lacquered finish w/ finely gilded chinoiserie decoration of floating leaves and cross hatching. Measure 42 1/2" high x 28"...

“I know of no other chair like the single [sic] ‘lyre back’ one. . . . I certainly recognize it as a Boston chair considering all the individual elements, but the combination is particularly elegant.” So wrote noted scholar of Boston furniture Page Talbott when a set of four chairs of this design originally surfaced in the 1980s. Although the existence of four chairs in a specific pattern might imply that the chairs were originally part of a larger set, no additional chairs of this form have appeared in the intervening years. The lyre became a popular motif during the Neo-Classical period, and is frequently encountered as the back splat of klismos chairs, in no example more familiar than in a group of Duncan Phyfe chairs...

Pair of French neoclassic upholstered seat side chairs. The chairs are defined by sabre front and raked rear legs which support an upholstered boxed seat. The splayed upper leg posts...

The finely carved unusual splat with two horse heads in the centre holding draperies in their mouth above a classcial pierced splat decorated with further draperies and supported by ...

Pair of 19th century Empire Lyre back dining chairs Wonderful pair of walnut dining chairs with carved double eagle head and lyre carving. Mea...