Hepplewhite chair
The English chair with a shield-shaped back, spread through a pattern book.
The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide was published by George Hepplewhite’s widow in 1788. It spread light English Neoclassicism to joiners throughout Britain and North America. Chairs in the style are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum.
Materials: Mahogany, sometimes satinwood; horsehair-stuffed seat
Manufacture: The back carved into a shield with pierced splats; straight tapering legs.
The shield back with an urn, plumes or wheat in the piercing.
Slender straight legs, often square and tapering to a small foot.