Two Rococo Ladies Red Silk Side Chairs - 1850’s

This pair of ladies side chairs are in the fully developed Rococo Revival manner which was expressed with great style and invention in the United States. It is richly carved, with cabriole legs, and is made of solid rosewood throughout.The chairs have a back composed of cartouche-shaped upholstered "chair-back" panels, with the carvings of pendant fruits and nuts terminating in full bunches of grapes. The crests of each chair is elaborately carved with fruits and nuts and grapes. The shaped C-scroll skirts are carved with a smaller central pendant finial of fruit. Each chair is upholstered in crimson silk with matching gimp. It has an oval panel in the back, some woven with a vignette of a cupid sculpting a marble bust; and a vignette of a tall formal case of flowers.Each chair rests on casters. These chairs are carved in similar style to the sofa available in a separate listing. These chairs are carved in a very similar manner to the furniture of the Belter School of New York City