What wood are cabriole stools usually made from?

Walnut is the house timber, named in 123 of 323 titles. Mahogany follows with 64 and rosewood with 43. Everything else is thin on the ground. Oak, beech, elm, birch and teak appear as occasional listings rather than a strand, along with a Goncalo Alves example.

How old are most of these stools?

The dated field runs from 1760 to 1930, with 146 listings carrying a clean year. The two biggest groups, though, are simply "Victorian" and "19th Century", 59 apiece. Where a decade is given, the 1860s lead, then the 1880s and 1870s. A second cluster sits at the 1900s and 1920s. Only nine listings are dated 18th Century.

Does a Queen Anne style stool date from that period?

No. Style names describe the design, not the year. Titles reading George I style or Queen Anne style commonly carry dates between 1880 and 1930. These revivals make up roughly a fifth of the category. Stools of the actual eighteenth century are far fewer and sit high in the range.

Are cabriole stools often sold in pairs?

Pairs appear in 27 titles, so they're a regular feature without being the norm. Pairs of window seats, footstools and rosewood stools recur through the upper half of the range.

What kinds of seat coverings turn up?

Titles name upholstered seats 30 times, and beyond that the coverings mentioned are needlework, needlepoint and tapestry, leather or hide, and buttoned work. Seats are described loosely in titles across the category. The frame and the legs get the detail.

How many cabriole stools come up for sale?

Around 33 are listed a year on Sellingantiques, and 124 different dealers have handled one. That spread tells you something: almost nobody specialises in them. They arrive as part of a general stock rather than from a dedicated seller.