Seating - Decorative Arts - Hirschl & Adler

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Hirschl & Adler Galleries offers select masterpiece-quality sofas, long sets of dining chairs, occasional chairs, and benches made from the Neo-Classical era. Nearly all examples were made in the cabinetmaking centers of Baltimore, Boston, New York, or Philadelphia.

Decorative Arts Inventory

Box Sofa, about 1820. Attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), New York. Rosewood and mahogany, partially paint-grained rosewood and gilded, brass line inlay, gilt-brass sabots and castors, and upholstery, 33 3/4 in. high, 82 in. long, 27 1/4 in. deep (detail).

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe, New York

Box Sofa FAPG 21005D/2 c. 1820

Récamier in the Neo-Classical Taste, about 1820. Attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), New York. Mahogany, partially gilded and painted verde antique, with die-stamped gilt-brass mounts, bolster buttons, and castors, and die-stamped brass inlaid with ebony, 32 in. high, 82 3/4 in. long, 24 1/2 in. deep (detail).

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe, New York

Récamier in the Neo-Classical Taste FAPG 20989D.006 c. 1820

Attributed to Thomas S. Renshaw and John Barnhart, Baltimore, Maryland

Attributed to Thomas S. Renshaw and John Barnhart, Baltimore, Maryland

Painted Chinese Red and Gilded “Fancy” Side Chair FAPG 20178D/2.2 c. 1815

Set of Twelve Klismos-form Dining Chairs, about 1815–20. Attributed to Isaac Vose & Son (active 1819–25), with Thomas Seymour (1772–1848), as foreman (active in the Vose shop, 1819–25), Boston. Mahogany with upholstered slip seats Each: 34 in. high, 18 13/16 in. wide, 23 1/8 in. deep (overall).

Set of Twelve Klismos-form Dining Chairs FAPG 20887D/2 c. 1815–20

Set of Twelve Neo-Classical Dining Chairs FAPG 19246D c. 1820

Set of Four Side, or Dining, Chairs FAPG 20495D.003 c. 1825

Pair Side Chairs with Lyre Backs, about 1825, Boston. Mahogany. Each, 34 in. high, 19 in. wide, 22 1/4 in. deep (overall)

Pair Side Chairs with Lyre Backs FAPG 20849D.001-002 c. 1825

Pair Painted Side Chairs with Vase-Shaped Splats in the Sheraton Taste, about 1785–93 Attributed to John Seymour, Jr. (1767–1793), Portland, Maine Black ash, cherry, and white pine, painted, with upholstered seats Each, 35 in. high, 20 in. wide, 19 1/2 in. deep (overall)

John Seymour, Jr. (1767-1793), Portland, Maine

Pair Painted Side Chairs with Vase-Shaped Splats in the Sheraton Taste FAPG 21224D/2 about 1785–93

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