Help identifying nursing chair

I think that pair has been cut down. Why would anyone need a pair of nursing chairs? I suppose if you had twins and wet nurses .... LOL!

I think we need to look at seat height vs. leg length in evaluating this chair. A dining chair usually has a seat height of 17"-18". If even a few inches lower, I would think this is a sewing chair.

I would have said this was 1890-1900 if American. I do see some of what they are calling Edwardian that are very similar to this so I don't know. The wood is walnut. Those straps on the bottom just don't look right the way they are done. I am not sure that they would even hold up that way over time.

Value, even in great condition, is very low here in the US. For example, an older walnut chair needing some re-gluing but with good upholstery sold for $5.00 at the auction I attended last night. You might see similar priced in the $25.00-50.00 range in a nice retail setting. I don't know what the value would be over there.

 

You could market it to us Mexican shorties, but then we'd need to decorate it with some nice red and green paint, maybe some nice faux-cheetah upholstery.
Seriously, though, it's soooo pretty. Thanks for sharing.
And now I feel educated about nursing chairs and sewing chairs.
Thanks, everybody!

 

Thanks for the info.

I am Uk based and believed it be Edwardian. Splat back too I believe from my research?

 

Um. Well. Back a few entries are a pair of Slipper Chairs.

As to the with or without arms for nursing chairs, and with or without rockers...one has a cosy picture of Mummy, or Nanny, or Nursie rocking gently back and forth, elbow on the arm, and baby on lap. In actuality, the only attribute which seems to hold true for all such ladies is that one should be slanted back a tad.

I was the lady in the rocker. Both my daughter and my daughter-in-law found armchairs Really Annoying.

 

I've always called this type of chair a Lady's Parlor chair.

They were lower than regular chairs.

 

I also would call it a Lady's Parlor chair. Even though this chair isn't in a typical Victorian style, during Victorian times lady's parlor chairs usually didn't have arms. Chair arms crushed their wide dresses with many petticoats. They wanted their huge dresses to spread out fully to be seen. This chair does have a splat up the back but also a lower rail. The "crest", decorative, on the top rail, has sort of an Eastlake style feel as well of course Edwardian.

Here are couple of useful sites on chair elements:
http://www.buffaloah.com/f/glos/chairs/terms/terms.html
http://www.buffaloah.com/f/glos/chairs/styles/chairstyles.html

--- Susan

 

Nursing benches........yes, we used to have one....nursing chair...not so much!! But the carving is beautiful!!

 

Sorry..............I know that's a 'let down'......

 

This beatiful piece is in fact an Edwardian 'grandmother chair' (also known as a nursing chair) c.1900 (Edwardian era was 1901-1910 a short reign after his mother, Queen Victoria's death). These chairs were usually made in pairs, with the grandmother version having no arms and the grandfather version having arms. In antique stores today, it is quite common to see pairs of these chairs, but individually I would value this chair at 250-300 AUD (depending on region).
Especially since it is in great, original condition like it is. A lovely piece! Thanks for sharing!

 

I hope you find out what they are soon, I have some carved chairs that are similar to yours but they have long legs on them with a thin tip on the front two and they tilt forward I’ve spent hours looking for them on google so that I can list them for sale correctly only I’m finding it rather difficult to identify them hence how I saw this post if anyone can help me at all I also have two others to identify so it would be much appreciated please could you send me a private message.

 

This thread is 6 years old so "soon" went out the window long ago. Your best bet is to start a new post here with clear photos.

 

that’s google for you I should of realised I have just joined and added a thread thank you ☺️