From the category archives:

Mystery

Late Classical Chair – ca. 1825

August 8, 2009

Still welcoming other thoughts on the discussion of our recent mystery chair. I’m providing an image of an authentic Late Classical chair with similar arm form, above. Let us know your thoughts in the comments of the original post.

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Mystery Chair – Late Classical or Nouveau?

August 5, 2009

Here’s an intriguing mystery chair for you which is in the middle of disagreement on it’s age. This isn’t a casual situation where a curious chair owner would like to know, but a case where the chair is being offered to a museum and two book authors disagree on the timeframe of it’s manufacture. Here [...]

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Victorian Folding Chair Identification

August 4, 2009

Photo courtesy of Liveauctioneers
Victorian-era Folding chairs did have a higher-end and occasionally you will see that reflected in the auction prices for them today. The chair above was (I believe incorrectly) attributed to Herter Brothers and garnered $3,500 at the sale. This Holmes folding chair with lion head arms sold for $1,650, while Al [...]

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Gold Gilt Belter Furniture

July 6, 2009

I recently ran across this four-piece set of John Henry Belter Rosalie chairs online and asked the owner if I could post the image here. What struck me about this set is that the crests are gold-gilt.
I have never run across this treatment on Belter furniture and so my initial reaction is that it [...]

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The Helen Of Troy Theory

May 28, 2009

(Continuation from Part I and Part II)
I’ve been talking a lot about Jenny Lind lately and here’s the impetus for my resurgent interest in solving the mystery of who the carved-arm females are meant to depict:

The owner of the sofa had recently put it up for sale on Ebay and an intriguing story came with [...]

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Consensus: Not Stanford White Design – Aesthetic Parlor Set

April 15, 2009

There was a lot of good discussion on the Parlor Set in the last post that, by family history, had been designed by or is in some way associated with Stanford White. Cheryl (AKA misslillybart) found a photo that seems to be a dead ringer for this set pattern in the Dickerson House photos, which [...]

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Stanford White Parlor Set Mystery

April 10, 2009

Usually when I do these antique Victorian furniture posts I post an image or so and accompany it with the brief research that I have done. I’m going to do it backwards this time. I am posting the image first without having done any research and let those in the Rare Victorian community who [...]

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