Victorian Seating

A fine slipper chair featuring balloon back with wide seat and on turned walnut front legs of the highest quality and attributed to Howard & Sons. English, Early Nineteenth Century ...

A 19th century armchair in turned faux bamboo beech with worn later paint and rattan seat. Structurally in good order with a firm seat 43cm seat height

Pair of French Victorian rosewood armchairs with carved back crest rail and striped velvet upholstery

intricate victorian / arts and crafts moorish style stool, possibly Liberty. Please note that our handling time is often much shorter than advertised.

This classic bentwood rocking chair. made of lacquered black bamboo, is attributed to Thonet from the 1920s. The seat interior and back have been upholstered in a tiger print fabric,...

We are delighted to offer for sale this important Museum quality William Birch made and stamped, retailed through Hampton & Son’s, designed by Adolf Loos Knieschwimmer lounge armchai...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare suite of five, ornately hand carved chairs featuring Twin headed Eagles sitting under Crowns ...

We delight to offer for sale this amazing set of eight Jacobean style oak dining chairs with carved acanthus leaf top rails, tan leather upholstery to the backs and overstuffed seat...

A whimsical and romantic Victorian rocking chair, custom upholstered in a soft blush and floral velvet fabric with a decorative fringe skirt. This antique piece features a high tufte...

We are delighted to offer for sale this sublime pair of Victorian circa 1880 military campaign style folding chairs A very good looking and highly collectable pair of desk steame...

Rustic American Victorian (19/20th Cent) steer horn loveseat with paisley upholstered seat. (possibly by Charles Puppe, San Antonio, TX)

A lovely set of four antique Victorian mahogany balloon-back dining chairs with elegant lines and a warm, well-preserved patina. Each chair features a shaped balloon back with a car...

A rare late Victorian suite of two chairs and a sofa in a dappled walnut finish with bergere panels, geometric detail and spade feet. Reupholstered in a white boucle with scatter cus...

A stunning pair of late 19th Century Aesthetic Movement bamboo Chippendale Salon chairs. Each features an intricate geometric design and striking black crane embroidered seats. With ...

Antique French settee or loveseat deconstructed and probably made in the late 1800's. When you take a hard look at the lion paw feet, you'll noti...

A deconstructed low open armchair with a gently scrolled back and a welcoming wide and deep seat. Gently sloping open arms adjoin the frame whilst finished on beautifully turned mah...

We are delighted to this lovely hand made Swedish Biedermeier library reading armchair A very good looking and decorative armchair, designed as ...

English Victorian Edwardian-style modern chestnut brown leather tufted back easy chair with turned mahogany legs ending in brass caps.   

Antique Merklen Brothers Victorian Barley Twist Mahogany Ball and Claw Coffee Table Piano Bench. Circa 19th Century. Measurements: Overall:...

Antique Victorian Wicker Rattan Sunroom Patio Furniture Sofa Couch Furniture. Item features a wicker wrapped frame, woven diamond design to back,...

A large sized mid 19th century walnut slipper chair with a serpentine front rail. Raised on quality walnut turned front legs with splayed walnut legs to the rear and all with the ori...

We are delighted to offer for sale very rare, original Victorian circa 1860 Howard & Son’s Chesterfield sofa with the original ticking fabric and long, ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this original Victorian circa 1860-1880 fully restored oxblood leather Knole sofa with overstuff feather filled cushions. This sofa was fully rest...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this sublime pair of circa 1880-1900 hand carved side chairs depicting swans, hand painted in green with gol...

Pair of American Victorian Wicker armchairs with semi-openwork woven backs with turned spindle detail and lattice aprons, and woven cane seat with removable primary pastel floral upholstered seat cushions. (probably WAKEFIELD RATTAN CO...

An exceptional Howard and Sons ‘Grantley’ sofa. This original Grantley H&S model sofa features down-filled outswept armrests that sit at the same height as the back, giving the sofa...

Such a beautiful and striking piece. Our Shelburne Daybed (also available as an armchair) certainly holds court and can be crafted in any combination of fabrics and leathers and var...

Antique Victorian era American oak and iron swivel drafting, architect stool with cane seat, circa 1900. A fixed height cane seat has a 360-degree smooth swivel, supported by curved...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

Antique Victorian quality carved mahogany desk chair, having a quality carved mahogany back, shaped open arms with carved scrolls, upholstered seat standing on shaped carved cabriole...

Antique Victorian Floral Scrollwork Carved Mahogany Parlor Slipper Side Chairs - a Pair. Item features floral scrollwork carved frame, brass rolling casters, solid wood frame, uphols...

A good quality Victorian leather reclining armchair by Foots Patent Chairs. Having a reclining back, and two opening arms, above a pull out adjustable stool. The chair is in excellen...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare, totally original, Howard & Son's Berners street fully stamped Bridgewater model armchair wi...

Victorian style spoon back parlor lounge chair. Victorian style chair with a spoon back. Mahogany with Cabriole legs on original castors.  

A fine and original late 19th century maroon buttoned leather armchair. On turned front legs and typical squared back, all with their original brass castors. Areas of wear as you ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of fully restored Chestnut brown leather Wingback armchairs finished with carved Claw & ...

English Georgian style (20th Century) wingback chair featuring a various colored foliate upholstered design with a stretcher

English Victorian/Edwardian style (20th Century) chestnut brown leather ottoman with turned mahogany legs ending in brass caps. (Related item: 062239)

A large English carved and water gilded settee of fine quality, with shell crest, scrolled corners and decorated with English roses and foliage throughout. Newly upholstered in faux ...

"What happens when two become one? “The Ones” chair entertains the thought of a merging, between two objects or people. It is about how coming together creates a new, sometimes sens...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Victorian suite of two armchairs and sofa. All pieces have stunning original turned bun feet with c...

Pair of English Victorian bamboo shield back Armchairs with rush panels on seat, back, and arms (19th Cent)

Antique 19th century civil war period folding officers camp chair campaign chair. Item features a folding design, wooden legs, metal frame, uph...

American Victorian dark natural wicker small loveseat with continuous roll arm back and woven apron & back panel with kidney shaped seat. (att: HEYWOOD...

Please message us with your zip code to request a more reasonable domestic U.S. shipping quote. Vintage French Victorian Hollywood Regency Cream Painted Rose Carved Pink Side Chair...

Antique Victorian Carved Walnut Tapestry Upholstered Parlor Lounge Arm Chair. Circa Late 19th Century. Measurements: 40.5" H x 26" W x 27" D x 16" Seat height x 25" Arm height.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare and collectable suite of eight original William Morris, Philip Webb, Rush seat Sussex ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this important pair of original Victorian Klismos armchairs with hand dyed brown leather woven seats. These really are an exquisite pair of armchairs, they are pure art furniture from every angle. Starting at the top you have a Greek key carved back rails, the front arms are carved eagle heads, the seats as mentioned are veg tan hand dyed woven leather straps which make for a very comfortable and hard wearing seat. The front legs are ornately carved Lions...

A set of four Victorian mahogany dining chairs with fine embroidery work floral seat cushions and back rests. The chairs exhibit a shaped cresting rail with carved ears over a Chipp...

We are delighted to offer this stunning fully restored Victorian hand dyed cigar brown leather Chesterfield tufted club sofa with feather filled cushions This sofa is as rare as t...

This is the original Charleston Battery Bench with heaviest weight cast iron sides made from the 19th century original pattern and durable South Carolina...

A 19th century country house sofa by renowned cabinet makers and upholsterers Morison & Co of Edinburgh Scotland Structurally in good solid order with tight joints. The upholstery ...

A wonderful Victorian rosewood library chair in green plush, on original brass castors, in excellent overall condition.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely fully restored hand dyed Cigar Brown leather captain's or directors armchair Please note the de...

A shapely mid 19th century country house armchair. Raised on turned and carved walnut front legs with splayed rear legs and all with brass casters. The chair has particularly nice fo...

A large and deep seated Howard & Sons club armchair, with strong frame and raised on square tapering legs and original brass castors, stamped Howard & Sons to all four castors and re...

Rococo Revival Victorian Laminated Walnut Scroll Slipper Chair Attributed to John Belter. Item features a serpentine laminated wood back, full reticulated scrolls, carved florals, se...

Antique English 19th Century Walnut Barley Twist Elbow Chair Armchair Traditionally upholstered and covered in an orange velvet fabric in good serviceable condition. Standing on bra...

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Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare circa 1850 hand made in Venice Italy carved Fruitwood rocking armchair depicting Sea horses, Cherubs, and gothic gargoyles...