Lot Essay
A side chair and an armchair from this set, also from the Blumenthal Collection, are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The same foliate motif of palm-fronds also can been seen in a set of side chairs and stools originally supplied to the Galleria degli Specchi in the Palazzo Durazzo in Genoa, now in the Palazzo Reale, Turin. See illustration in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguiria, Genoa, 1996, figs. 266-7.
cf. Christie's New York, December 10, 1998, Important 20th Century Arts, lot 187, illustrating a pair of side chairs after this model by Armand Albery Rateau, circa 1920.
cf. Christie's New York, December 10, 1998, Important 20th Century Arts, lot 187, illustrating a pair of side chairs after this model by Armand Albery Rateau, circa 1920.