Antique carved walnut ram's head armchair, Rococo Revival, seen from the front with its asymmetrical pierced crest and green silk brocade upholstery

Antique Carved Walnut Ram's Head Armchair, Rococo Revival Pierced Crest, Louis XV Taste — Sold As Found

$2,000.00
$2,000.00
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Antique carved walnut ram's head armchair, Rococo Revival, seen from the front with its asymmetrical pierced crest and green silk brocade upholstery
  • Antique carved walnut ram's head armchair, Rococo Revival, seen from the front with its asymmetrical pierced crest and green silk brocade upholstery
  • Carved ram's head at the knee of the chair's cabriole leg, the horn coiled around the ear and the muzzle carved in the round
  • Full cabriole leg showing the ram's head at the knee and the fleece carved as a pendant trail running down to a scrolled toe
  • Close view of the asymmetrical pierced crest rail, deeply carved with scrolls, acanthus and a floral spray
  • The pierced crest rail from above, showing the depth of the undercut carving and the gadrooned right shoulder
  • The chair from the side, showing the serpentine back, the carved seat rail and the sweep of the arm
  • Condition detail: the arm-to-seat junction, with the frame open at the joint and the gimp braid lifting
  • Condition detail: the back of the crest rail, with a split running through the show wood beside the piercing
  • The front leg from below, showing the carved knee, the moulded serpentine seat rail and the scrolled toe
  • Tape measure against the seat, recording the seat depth
  • The chair from behind, showing the back cut from a single shaped plank and the pierced crest
  • Condition detail: the upper back, with a crack visible in the show wood below the pierced shoulder
  • The junction of arm, seat and back, showing the carved uprights and the brocade seat
  • The whole chair from behind, off the floor, showing the shaped back and the carved crest
  • Condition detail: an open split running across the back frame of the chair
  • Tape measure across the arms, recording the chair's width
  • Tape measure against the crest, recording the overall height at about 40 inches
  • Antique carved walnut ram's head armchair, Rococo Revival, seen from the front with its asymmetrical pierced crest and green silk brocade upholstery
  • Carved ram's head at the knee of the chair's cabriole leg, the horn coiled around the ear and the muzzle carved in the round
  • Full cabriole leg showing the ram's head at the knee and the fleece carved as a pendant trail running down to a scrolled toe
  • Close view of the asymmetrical pierced crest rail, deeply carved with scrolls, acanthus and a floral spray
  • The pierced crest rail from above, showing the depth of the undercut carving and the gadrooned right shoulder
  • The chair from the side, showing the serpentine back, the carved seat rail and the sweep of the arm
  • Condition detail: the arm-to-seat junction, with the frame open at the joint and the gimp braid lifting
  • Condition detail: the back of the crest rail, with a split running through the show wood beside the piercing
  • The front leg from below, showing the carved knee, the moulded serpentine seat rail and the scrolled toe
  • Tape measure against the seat, recording the seat depth
  • The chair from behind, showing the back cut from a single shaped plank and the pierced crest
  • Condition detail: the upper back, with a crack visible in the show wood below the pierced shoulder
  • The junction of arm, seat and back, showing the carved uprights and the brocade seat
  • The whole chair from behind, off the floor, showing the shaped back and the carved crest
  • Condition detail: an open split running across the back frame of the chair
  • Tape measure across the arms, recording the chair's width
  • Tape measure against the crest, recording the overall height at about 40 inches
Antique Carved Walnut Ram's Head Armchair, Rococo Revival Pierced Crest, Louis XV Taste — Sold As Found

Antique Carved Walnut Ram's Head Armchair, Rococo Revival Pierced Crest, Louis XV Taste — Sold As Found

$2,000.00
$2,000.00

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Style: Rococo Revival, in the Louis XV taste. Continental.

• The rams: each cabriole leg is carved at the knee with a ram's head — the horn coiled around the ear, an almond eye, and the fleece carved as a pendant trail running down the leg to a scrolled toe. Carved in the round out of the leg itself, not applied.

• Crest: an asymmetrical pierced and scrolled crest rail, with a carved mask and a floral spray set inside the piercing

• Frame: serpentine back, foliate-carved arm terminals, moulded serpentine seat rail

• Construction: Solid carved show wood — walnut or mahogany — not laminated. The crest is cut from a single plank: the tool marks are still visible through the sawn piercing, and the frame has split along the grain, which laminated stock is built specifically not to do. That rules out the American laminated school and points to Continental work.

• Age and origin: Not established, and not claimed. The chair has not been examined by a specialist. On style and construction it reads as Continental Louis XV-revival work rather than an 18th-century chair, but that is a reading from the piece, not an attribution. It came to the family as "over 200 years old"; we cannot support that figure and do not repeat it as fact.

• Upholstery: Green silk brocade with pink and cream floral sprays and birds, finished with a gilt gimp braid. A later recovering, not original.

• Dimensions: Approximately 40 in high at the crest x 24 in wide across the arms

• Condition: Fair. SOLD AS FOUND — this is not a ready-to-use chair. There are structural cracks in the show wood, including a split through the crest rail and an open split across the back frame, and the upholstery is worn with losses to the braid.

WHY IT IS PRICED WHERE IT IS

The same model is offered elsewhere in giltwood and undamaged, above $3,000 before freight — and without the rams: those examples carry a plain acanthus leaf at the knee. This one is show wood rather than gilt over gesso, and it has the rams. It also has the split crest, and that is the whole of the difference in price. Budget for a frame repair and a re-cover.

With that work done it would make a striking accent chair for a parlour, study or bedroom.

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