Pair of 19th Century Empire Lyre Back Dining Chairs

Pair of early 20th century Prince of Wales style arm chairs Painted eggshell white and gold Measures: 24" wide x 20" deep x 19" high at the seat x 27" high at the arm x 39.5" h...

C. 20th Century Amazing, Beautiful French style side chairs by Chateau D'ax Italian made beautiful chairs w/ carved walnut suede backs & ...

Pair of Napoleonic - style striped side chairs with gilded ormolu mounts Upholstered in silk fabric 20 x 20 x 38

Pair of Sheraton fancy early 19th century Hitchcock chairs with rush seats Scrolled center splats with painted decoration fruit and floral design 16.85 x 18 x 35

Pair 19th-century Italian Empire side chairs featuring carved foliage back with central ebonized medallion and elegantly curved legs. Two pairs available, sold in pairs.

Possibly Italian. Elegant side chairs with curved and scrolled crest rails with reeded bands. The lyre form splats with finely carved scrolled leafy sides and a center palmette and l...

Gorgeous transitional pair of 19th century French hall chairs crafted from fruitwood. The chairs are crafted in the Louis Philippe manner and period...

“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...