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   SgianDubh | Jul 04, 2004 08:14pm | #1

   It's got country neo-classical spilling out all over the place. It reeks of Egyptian/Greek/Roman influences from the early 1800's but those country bobbin type turned legs are throwing me a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if the maker was aware of the writings and illustrations of Thomas Hope from the early 1800's, but the item made quite a bit later-- say fifty or so more years.

   I wonder if it might be a commissioned dignitaries chair?  Slainte.

   RJFurniture

   
   

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   Edited 7/5/2004 1:10 pm ET by Sgian Dubh

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   sawdustmaker | Jul 04, 2004 10:17pm | #2

   Thank you for the quick, insightful reply. The client I am working for was considering throwing the item out rather than fixing it. The curved arm had come loose, causing most of the spindles to come loose from their respective "sockets", and a couple of the spindles were missing. I simply turned a couple spindles on the lathe and glued the arm assembly back together. It would have been a shame had she thrown it out, as it is in remarkably good shape.

   Thanks again for your input.

   Mike

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   jonsherryl | Jul 04, 2004 10:55pm | #4

   Mike, I agree with Sgian. It has a Neo-Classical look, but I suspect it is of a later vintage. (one clue is that the spindles are spool type, as opposed to fluted). I suspect it may be mid Victorian. What we call The Victorian Period actually encompassed a series of revivals...not only Neo-Classical in style but even a string of racoco and Gothic rebirths. We mostly think of "Victorian" as the dark, ornate racoco revival popular in the late Victorian Period (1890s)...but this was preceded by a neo-classical (Egyptian) phase earlier in Victoria's reign...when the British army was running all over Egypt and the Sudan.

   The Neo-Classical style of the early 1800s (What we Americans usually refer to as the Federal period) was based on Greco-Roman designs...mostly the result of excavations conducted in Italy in the late 1700s that had already influenced French and English furniture prior to the end of the 18th century.

   Another possibility is it might date from as late as the 1920s when the excavation of King Tut's tomb caused a brief but very popular fad for things Egyptian. 

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   Vibart2 | Jul 04, 2004 10:24pm | #3

   Hey there Chief little Knife how you doin????Sucking.......Whoosh.......Yowl........Whoosh.........Thrump puttytat up the DC..

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   SgianDubh | Jul 05, 2004 08:09pm | #5

   Well, I hope I didn't go up the dust extractor O-B.

   Sounds like yours needs a separator or cyclone, ha, ha. Slainte.RJFurniture

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   wop | Jul 05, 2004 10:58pm | #6

      My guess would be Mid to late 1800's victorian more specifically just a bit post bellium. I say this because I have seen in north Georgia a number of pieces that have similar traits(spindles, legs,etc) that are from those years. The hemisferical bottom though is unique to me. Could be a bit later but I don't think it was before that date.

                                                                           Philip

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   sawdustmaker | Jul 06, 2004 12:29am | #7

   Thanks all for your input. This will get me started in the right direction for a little more research.