Featured Help me identify this carved throne chair.

Hello

I have been trying to correctly identify this chair for some time and I still dont really know.
How old?
origin?
Estimated value?

I have had it for 15 years and its been my reading chair but Im considering selling it and I realize its likely worth a good deal. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

More typically called a "wainscot" arm chair, popular in america & england in the 17th century. This is a revival chair, guesses late 19th century era.

 

LOL, FINALLY!

 

Here is a pair of period 17th century wainscot chairs

 

Hey guys
very cool. So its not 17th century but a 19th century replica?

 

Correct

 

Is it likely valuable or should I keep it for my reading chair?

 

I'd keep it as a reading chair, it is not valuable, I'd guess $150 or so if that much. Others should be along that can give a more accurate number but, brown furniture is not in fashion these days & prices are low generally speaking.

 

If you notice in photo of period chairs, the background is wainscot wall paneling and typically in the 17th century they used their best quality riven oak timber/lumber to build these wall panels, ditto for these chairs hence the name "wainscot chair". Or so the story goes, at least for now..........

 

Welcome to Antiquers Brundel!

 

I get a colonial vibe from this. Thai? Anglo-Indian?

 

Yeah, it could very well be, it does have that every square inch carved look of an import.

 

And the pedestal with curved "paws"
@Any Jewelry will know, I'm pretty sure

 

Agrees, where is AJ on this, she's pretty good at this sort of thing. Wonders what species the wood is as that is usually a clue about origin.

 

Welcome, Brundel. Wonderful reading chair, are you sure you want to sell it?

Thanks for tagging me kyra.
The style and colour look Indo-Portuguese or Indo-Dutch, in the style of the Portuguese or Dutch colonies in India and Sri Lanka. I agree with James, it is a revival chair, very beautifully made.
The design of the central flower (lotus?) even looks Javanese (Indonesian), another part of Asia where both the Portuguese and Dutch used to be.
Asian Colonial furniture can incorporate different styles, because craftspeople traveled from one colony to another. Indo-Dutch can also refer to colonial furniture from Indonesia.

Generally this ebony or ebonized furniture is from Portuguese and Dutch India and Sri Lanka, and the Dutch-Indonesian style used and combined different woods.

 

I agree with AJ. South-East Asian but hard to define which country. Do you have the cushion that fits inside the seat frame?

 

I dont have the cushion no. I have been using one that I had that fits perfectly.
Great looking chair though.
If its basically worthless I will for sure keep.

 

Well, it's not worthless, it's just not very valuable, most brown furniture isn't these days. If it was an American period wainscot chair for instance it would be, hundreds of thousands probably because there are only 30 something known to exist. If English, not so much, maybe a couple thousand because there are many of them still around.

 

Hi Brundel. By cushion, I meant more of a specially made wooden frame that fits snuggly into your chairs raised edge with lots of cushioning and great upholstery. I looked again online for you, but couldn't find a match.

The best I could manage were these, which I hope shows what I mean.