For your consideration area Child's Birdcage Chair and a Ladderback Chair, early 19th Century New England. Ex-Boston area estate collection. The "birdcage" style of Windsor chair became a popular decorative variation in the 19th century, featuring a cage-like back with numerous spindles and often bamboo-style turnings, inspired by an earlier English style known for its elegance and use of complex designs like pierced back splats and cabriole legs. While Windsor chairs originated in England around 1720, this particular style flourished in the 19th century in American and British workshops, where makers adapted the design using local materials and techniques, moving beyond the functional, primitive forms that dominated earlier periods. Shaker ladder-back chairs are simplified, well-crafted versions of traditional ladder-back chairs, a form dating back to the Middle Ages, that became a core Shaker product in the 19th century. Shaker chairs were originally designed in late 18th-century America by the followers of the Shakers, a religious group who believed that furniture should be functional, practical, and free of ornamentation. The Shakers adapted the design for community living, with their name becoming synonymous with the chair style itself. The ladder back arm chair features a woven rush seat (most commonly made from natural cattail leaves or bulrush), with three concave back slats set into plainly turned rear stiles. Plainly turned wood armrests and stretchers. Original dark stain faded with age and use. Birdcage WIndsor chair features features wood turned six-spindle back, over saddle seat rising on traditional turned "bamboo" style legs and "bamboo" style turned stretchers. Original stain faded with age and use. Birdcage chair measures 28.5"H x 12.5"D x 14.5"W, ladder back chair is 20.25"H x 10.75"D x 13.25"W. Combined weight is 8lb, 10oz.