A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL NEOCLASSIC CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL NEOCLASSIC CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Each with rectangular scrolled padded back, the crest carved with a central patera flanked by anthemia on padded downscrolled arms upholstered in cream linen on scrolled gadrooned legs and scroll feet (2)

Lot Essay

A set of chairs with similar elements were executed in 1819 in Colorno and are now in the Teatro Regio, Parma (illustrated in G. Cirillo and G. Godi, Il Mobile a Parma Fra Borocco e Romanticismo 1600-1860, 1983, p.213, no. 587).