Antique Furniture Leg Styles

Cabriole Leg
This curving leg style is commonly associated with Queen Anne and Chippendale styles.

Elephant-trunk Leg
You can never forget the elephant-trunk leg once you see it. This glossary-style article defines the elephant-trunk leg, a characteristic style in Chinese furniture. Learn what an elephant-trunk leg looks like in this illustrated article.

Flemish Scroll Leg
This leg style, developed in the second half of the 17th century, features in late Baroque furniture styles, such as Restoration and William and Mary.

Fluted Leg
This furniture leg style flourished in the Neoclassical styles of the second half of the 18th century, such as Hepplewhite, as well as 19th-century Classical Revival styles.

Marlborough Leg
Typical of mid-18th century English and American furniture, this leg style was especially common on chairs, tables, sofas and bedsteads.

Reeded Leg
Modeled after ancient Greek and Roman motifs, this leg style flourished in the later Neoclassical, Regency and Empire styles that developed around the turn of the 19th century.

Saber Leg
This leg style underwent a revival among late 18th-century designers such as Sheraton, and flourished in Regency and Empire furniture.

Spider Leg
This type of furniture leg can take shape as delicate, thin curves or slim, straight lines.

Spindle Leg
From the About.com Budget Decorating site, this leg example fits in best with country decor.

Spiral Leg
This leg style enjoyed a comeback in late Empire and Federal pieces 100 years after it was first used, and again in the mid-19th century, along with other 'revival' styles.

Trumpet Leg
Sound the trumpets when you identify a trumpet leg. The trumpet leg was a furniture style typical of the mid-17th and early 18th century. This illustrated glossary-style article describes and defines the trumpet leg. Learn which types of furniture are characterized by trumpet legs.