Federal Chairs

American Parcel-Gilt Ebonized Hitchcock Chair, early 20th century, with a rush seat. 31" H x 20" W x 19" D.

A fine Federal mahogany lolling chair with fresh red satin upholstery featuring gold wheat accent pattern, circa 1785. Provenance: Bernard & S. Dean Levy...

A fine set of eight mahogany Federal style upholstered dining chairs including two arm chairs and six side chairs, with stepped crest rail on each chair with inlaid panel, reticulate...

"Eight handmade 18th century inspired windsor dining chairs, circa 1950s. Made from walnut featuring bentwood slatted back and saddle seat. Features 6 bow back chairs and 2 sack back...

2 S. Bent & Bros Hitchcock style colonial windsor thumb back side chairs. Made from maple with a black finish, stenciled back and gold trim. S. Bent & Brot...

A set of eight antique Federal dining chairs offer tiger maple construction with stylized scroll form rail over slat back, caned seats and splay l...

A fine set of ten Federal style mahogany dining chairs attributed to Lithuanian / American well known furniture maker Nathan Margolis, of Hartford CT, two ...

Six L. Hitchcock Harvest Windsor dining chairs. Made from maple with a stenciled fan back, contoured seat and gold trim. The story of L. Hitcock begain in 1814 when 19-year-old Lambert Hitchcock of Chesire, Connecticut was apprenticed to Silas Cheney (1776-1821) of Litchfield as a novice woodworker. Cheney was the typical cabinetmaker of the period turning out well made examples of Federal sideboards and fancy painted chairs that caught young Hitchcock’s attention. While apprenticed to Cheney he became familiar with the work of Eli Terry, the famous clock maker and inventor. Terry had formed a partnership with Seth Thomas and his son, also named Seth Thomas, to produce the components of wooden clock works in an assembly line fashion. This little trick stuck in Hitchcock’s mind as he mapped his future. In 1818 Hitchcock completed his apprenticeship and moved to a tiny sawmill community in the township of Barkhamsted known as Fork-of-the-Rivers at the junction of the Farmington and Still Rivers. He found employment in the local sawmill which was owned by some family friends and settled in. He “homesteaded” a small room at the back of the mill and after tapping into the mill’s power source from the river he began to manufacture a small number of unfinished individual chair components. He sold these components to Yankee traders who sold them to mercantile stores as replacement parts for broken chairs. Business was good and demand soon outstripped his ability to meet it by himself. He hired some help to make the parts and began to expand his market, shipping chair components as far away as Charleston, South Carolina. He eventually graduated to making complete unfinished chairs...

An unusually good set of six maple wood Hitchcock style chairs with rush seats. In excellent original antique condition. Sturdy and Sound. Rece...

This set of six chairs from America is of the federal period and were made circa 1820. An additional armchair that came along with the set is included since they were purchased from ...

An antique set of six federal dining chairs offers mahogany construction with shield backs with carved wheat and raised square and tapered legs te...

Set of eight American Federal mahogany acanthus carved dining room chairs with scrolled arms, foliage splat backs, and terminating on turned bulbous ...