AN ITALIAN GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIR

LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROMAN

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AN ITALIAN GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIR
Late 18th Century, probably Roman
The rounded back and seat covered with polychrome floral damask, the seat with a squab cushion, the frame of the back carved with pearled motif and berried foliate moulding, centred by an acanthus spray, centred to the lower rail with a bucrane medallion, the scrolled arms with acanthus motif, the seat-rail with ribbon-tied laurel swags and on stop-fluted tapering turned legs with upswept acanthus and terminating in pine-cone sabot, largely repainted with traces of earlier decoration

Lot Essay

Related Roman armchairs, with restrained classical ornament and with similar pierced backs and carved masks, are illustrated in A. Gonzlez-Palacios, Fasto Romano, Rome, 1991, p. 183, fig. 132 (from the Fondazione Caetani), and A. Gonzlez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto: Roma e il Regno delle Due Sicilie, Milan, 1984, vol. II, p. 84, fig. 162. (from the collection of Sir Harold Acton, Florence).

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