A good place to start when identifying furniture is often to figure out what period it s from.
Vintage style chair legs.
Art furniture 1880 1914.
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.
Early 17th century furniture typically featured bun or ball style feet.
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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.
Significant furniture design periods.
Legs and chair backs are straighter often with incised decoration.
It was developed in the second half of the 17th century and is featured in late baroque furniture styles such as restoration and william and mary.
Finding just the right leg to match your furniture piece can be a real pain especially when they tend to come pre stained.
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One of the best ways to identify an antique style is by observing the piece s legs and feet.
Other chair feet include the drake or trifid foot a three toed flared foot.
The style embraces both straight and angular with some pieces that are much more fluid reflecting several earlier design periods.
Antique brass casters are the most traditional type used on period furniture while nickel casters add an upscale feeling to modern chairs and tables.
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.
Leg style determines reproduction caster type.
It was also used in the work.
On american antique chairs the ball and claw foot often consisted of an eagle s claw holding the ball.
3 spoon carved walnut eastlake furniture panels victorian door pediment.
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.
Elizabethan 1520 1620 early american style 1640 1700.
Leg and foot styles.
Set of 4 old turned table legs harvest farmer s table antique wood legs.
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.