Featured CHINESE? CORNER CHAIR w/CROSS & SHIELD?

This is from Bob Brooks of Antique Q&A which was a link in a early answer about this chair. I told him the antiquers board mentioned him in describing a similar chair, and sent him photos of mine. Here is his reply which he asked me to share with you all:

Charles:
I took a look at your chair photos. What you found is a Victorian Gothic
Revival corner chair that probably dates from 1840 to 1865. Corner chairs
existed during the Jacobean Period of the 17th century. The design of this
one features medieval motifs. And, yes, it sort of looks Chinese but isn't.
It's also not related to Chippendale, who used Chinoiserie motifs in some of
his furniture designs.

During the Victorian Era, there were lots of style revivals. In fact,
there's no such thing as one Victorian style.

Please share this with the people at Antiquers.com. Also, please tell them
about my online antiques magazine. It's free and currently has 16,000
viewers. Go to The Antiques Almanac at http://theantiquesalmanac.com. The
theme of the latest edition is "All Things Victorian."

For more information on Victorian Revivals, read "The Victorian Era--An Age
of Revivals" at http://theantiquesalmanac.com/victorianrevivals.htm

Thanks,
Bob Brooke
http://theantiquesalmanac.com
http://antiquesqa.blogspot.com

He then sent me a 2nd email:

Charles:
On further inspection, I also think your chair is probably English. It's
also possible that it was used in a church, given the St. George and the
Dragon theme.

Thanks,
Bob

- So, should I call it:
A English Victorian Gothic Revival corner chair that probably dates from 1840 to 1865??
Thanks all - and thanks Bob!

 

Great, journey, thanks for the update.

 

Told you so.

 

Victorian Gothic Revival mid 1800s English corner chair

Thanks for the update.
Glad to know I was in the right time frame and country.

 

Since everyone is posting picture of various other pieces here, I'll throw in this Queen Anne chair I just picked up last week which is period 18th, but has had work done on it so not desirable to most collectors (if there are still any collectors out there). Not my favorite piece, but useful for comparison. Lack of secondary woods made me assume English at first, though I think the style makes it pretty definitely American. Unfortunately it looks to have been disassembled and put back together with new and enlarged plus a couple extra pegs; besides the tip of one arm and at least one tenon it is possible other pieces were replaced and I haven't gone over it in detail but it seems mostly original.