Lot 44
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SCARLET-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ROCOCO SCARLET-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
MID-18TH CENTURY, VENETIAN

Each with cartouche shaped back and seat upholstered à chassis in cocoa floral brocaded silk, with shell-carved arched cresting and outswept arms above rocaille-carved seatrails on cabriole legs ending in scrolling toes (2)
Provenance

Lot Essay

A Venetian japanned armchair of similar sinuous outline and with shell-carved cresting and seatrail is illustrated in H. Huth, Lacquer of the West, London,1971, pl.117. Another, part of a suite, is illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Görlich Editore, 1964, Vol. I, pl.76.