20th Century Queen Anne Revival Mahogany Child’s Chair

This is a beautiful antique Queen Anne revival child’s chair, circa 1920 in date. This chair has been masterfully crafted in beautiful solid mahogany and upholstered in a striking burgundy damask. The item is not CITES pursuant. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned polished and reupholstered in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 72 x width 43 x depth 42 Height 33 – Seat height Dimensions in inches: Height 28.3 x width 16.9 x depth 16.5 Height 13.0 – Seat height Mahogany is probably one of the largest ‘families’ of hardwood, having many different varieties within its own species. Mahogany has been used for centuries in ship building, house building, furniture making etc and is the core structure of just about every 19th century vanity box, dressing case or jewellery box. It became more of a Victorian trend to dress mahogany with these decorative veneers, such as Rosewood, Kingwood, Burr Walnut and Coromandel, so that the actual mahogany was almost hidden from view. Mahogany itself is a rich reddish brown wood that can range from being plain in appearance to something that is so vibrant, figured and almost three dimensional in effect. Although mahogany was most often used in its solid form, it also provided some beautifully figured varieties of veneer like ‘Flame’ mahogany and ‘Fiddleback’ mahogany (named after its preferred use in the manufacture of fine musical instruments). Cuban mahogany was so sought after, that by the late 1850s, this particular variety became all but extinct.