Hi Does anyone know what sort of chair this is, please?

I have two of these. They are smaller than a normal chair so I thought they might be hall chairs? Are they antiques and worth anything? I can't remember anything about buying them, except it was about 20 years ago on eBay. Grateful for any help. Thanks!

 

It looks European. Did you buy them on ebay US or other country?

Can you take a picture looking straight at the chair so we can see the legs and any stretchers, please.

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Yes, I'll do that. Thanks! Bought them in the UK.

 

Oak hall chairs. Country made by the look of them. They look late Georgian to me.

 

Thank you! I will take another photo of them later head on as suggested above.

 

Yeah agrees, I don't think american.
Interesting symbol on chair back, a carpenter's square perhaps? Could be a chair that was part of a lodge or society.

 

Photo as suggested above.

 

That's an armorial symbol. It may have come from a lesser country house.

 

Thank you!

Thank you!

 

Looks English ca. 1880 to me. The finish on some of the elements makes it look like somewhat of a pastiche.

 

Thank you.

 

Earlier, imo. Shape and that chip type carving are more 1830s ish than 1880, if it's country.

 

Thanks! It's intriguing. Wonder if the acorn motif (if that's what it is) has any meaning along with the carpenters' square (if that's what that is).

 

Not an acorn, it's a trailing vine type plant. Sort of a fuchsia, but a bit tricky to be specific. I don't think it's a carpenters square, it's a very simplified part of a coat of arms to me.

 

Thanks

Interesting! I will look into it. Thank you.

 

Gothic elements point to post-Georgian. If English, Victorian IMO

 

On the Gothic thing. We did that early. As in Strawberry Hill house, which was finished in the 1770s. I was looking at images of Prideaux Place in Padstow earlier. One of the windows had that armorial, which is interesting. It's an Elizabethan house which was revamped Gothic in the 18th C.

 

Thanks again. I will contact them and see what they say.

 

I just looked at their website. How beautiful! Thanks for mentioning it.

 

Glorious, isn't it. As you can see, it does show that Gothic is WAY earlier than the 19th!