What period do most walnut sofas come from?

The dated field runs from 1750 to 1930, and the weight of it sits mid-to-late Victorian. Where decades are given they cluster in the 1860s, 1880s and 1870s, with a secondary group in the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s. Much of the dating is deliberately loose. "Victorian" and "19th Century" together account for well over a third of dated entries, and a dealer's circa year is an estimate.

Is a chaise longue the same as a chaise lounge?

Same form, two spellings. Sixty-one titles use chaise longue and 19 use chaise lounge, and both describe a long seat with a raised end for reclining. The wider naming is just as fluid. Settee, sofa, couch, canapé, lounge, banquette and love seat all appear for what is recognisably one form.

How many walnut sofas come up each year?

Around 44 are listed on Sellingantiques in a year, and 124 separate dealers have handled one, so no single dealer defines what turns up. The great bulk arrives as a single piece. Only 8 titles offer a pair and 14 a suite.

Are French walnut sofas common in this category?

Frenchness is the strongest regional signal in the archive, in 95 of 500 titles, well ahead of Italian or English as a stated origin. The French group covers canapés, caned bergère settees and salon suites, often described with a Louis label. Dutch, Scandinavian, Swedish, Anglo-Indian and Biedermeier examples surface only once or twice.

Do these sofas carry maker's names?

Rarely. Named workshops appear in scattered single titles rather than across the category, and "sons" turns up in only 9 titles out of 500. Where a name does appear it is often given as an attribution rather than a stamp or a label. The great majority of listings identify a piece by period, form and origin instead.

What sizes do walnut sofas run to?

From love seats and small boudoir settees up to three-seaters, conversation seats and full salon suites. Size language splits neatly in the titles, with "small" appearing in 24 against "large" in 13. The largest thing recorded in a title is a seven-foot country-house sofa. Dimensions are only stated in isolated listings, so they aren't a category norm.

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A walnut sofa is drawing-room seat furniture built on a polished walnut frame left visible around the upholstery, made to sit in a Victorian parlour or a French salon.