Antique Orchestra Chair with Lyre Back

Very elegant sculptural cane armchair with carved floral accents. The curved back makes this very more comfortable than a straight back chair. the seat was originally cane but has be...

Black Lacquer Italian Liberty Furniture Industries dining chairs. Each chair has a sleek curved back and are recovered in a very nice white b...

Superb Quality Lyre Back Revolving Harpist/Cello Music Chair This is a really lovely fine quality Lyre back chair, the back has a very fine decorative cartouche and the seat has bee...

“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...