Lot 103
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A SUITE OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD SEAT FURNITURE

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A SUITE OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC GILTWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY FLORENTINE

Comprising four side chairs and one armchair, each with oval padded back upholstered in green silk above a padded seat carved throughout with entrelac and foliage on turned stop-fluted legs (5)

Lot Essay

The distinctly carved frame of entrelac and acanthus of these chairs relates to a giltwood side chair supplied by Giovanni Toussaint to the Palazzo Pitti in 1783, illustrated in S. Chiarugi, Botteghe di Mobilieri in Toscana, Florence, 1994, vol. I, p. 76, fig. 43.