Vintage Style Chair Legs

Significant furniture design periods.

Vintage style chair legs.

Elizabethan 1520 1620 early american style 1640 1700. Make offer 5 vintage wood grain furniture legs chair ottoman sofa round 5 tall 2 widest set of 4 vintage metal table legs heavy industrial 28 5 long 95 00. One of the best ways to identify an antique style is by observing the piece s legs and feet. Finding just the right leg to match your furniture piece can be a real pain especially when they tend to come pre stained.

When identifying antique chairs it s important to have a basic knowledge of the significant design periods and the important types of chairs. The style embraces both straight and angular with some pieces that are much more fluid reflecting several earlier design periods. 3 spoon carved walnut eastlake furniture panels victorian door pediment. But we can help.

They mount to the underside of chair table and bureau legs. This period represents furniture designs gone mad almost an anything goes school of thought. These replacement caster wheels are suitable for new vintage and antique furniture. On american antique chairs the ball and claw foot often consisted of an eagle s claw holding the ball.

Antique brass casters are the most traditional type used on period furniture while nickel casters add an upscale feeling to modern chairs and tables. Leg style determines reproduction caster type. Leg and foot styles. This style of carved furniture leg is characterized by scrolls at the top and the bottom often spiraling in opposite directions.

If every journey begins with a single step the road to antique furniture knowledge can start with a foot specifically the antique foot style belonging to a chair chest or table. Claw and ball feet are often found at the end of a cabriole leg on chippendale chairs while tapered federal legs and feet are found on queen anne style chairs. Art furniture 1880 1914. Other chair feet include the drake or trifid foot a three toed flared foot.

Set of 4 old turned table legs harvest farmer s table antique wood legs. Identifying antique furniture feet can help determine the approximate age of a piece along with the period in which it was made helping you research and value antique pieces more skillfully. Our extensive selection of furniture feet and legs is sure to have a piece to match your needs and they are all sent unfinished so that you can paint or stain them to match your project. Legs and chair backs are straighter often with incised decoration.

A good place to start when identifying furniture is often to figure out what period it s from. Set of 4 wood scroll table legs baroque style furniture floral vintage heavy.