SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILTWOOD THRONE ARMCHAIRS
Second quarter 18th Century
Each with arched shaped removable padded back, squab-cushion and seat covered in crimson velvet decorated with foliage in white and gilt thread, the toprail and sides carved with rockwork and foliage and headed by a crest and a cross inscribed "PAX", the arms with scrolling terminals, on cabriole legs headed by foliage and terminating in scrolling feet, regilt (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 21 March 1996, lot 117 ($25,300). Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 30 March 1999, lot 59 ($19,550).

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Lot Essay

A related Sicilian throne chair with similar bold carving to the crest rail in the Museo Regionale Pepoli in Trapani, Sicily, is illustrated in M. Giarizzo and A. Rotolo, Mobili e Mobilieri nella Sicilie del Settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 71.

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