CIRCA 1820, IN THE MANNER OF PETERS, GENOA

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A SET OF EIGHT NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
CIRCA 1820, IN THE MANNER OF PETERS, GENOA
Comprising two armchairs and six side-chairs, each armchair with rectangular padded back and drop-in seat, the toprail centred by a palmette flanked by volutes, with acanthus wrapped uprights, the arms on griffin supports, the seatrails with a foliate and palmette frieze, on gadrooned fluted and turned tapering front legs and sabre back legs, the six side chairs decorated en suite
The armchairs: 39 in. (99 cm.) high; 21 in. (61 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This set of Italian giltwood seat furniture is closely related to the work of the Savoy court cabinet-maker, Henry Thomas Peters (d.1852). Peters first established his workshop in the former convent of Santa Brigida in Genoa and advertised in the Gazette di Genoa of December 1836. He received a silver medal at the 1846 Genoa Great Exhibition of National Manufactures and Products. Peters collaborated with the Piedmontese architect and designer Pelagio Pelagi (d.1860) at the Palazzo Reale, Turin and at Castello Reale di Racconigi. A related Royal mahogany side chair from the collection of S.A.R. La Principessa Reale Maria Gabriella, was sold in these Rooms, 27 June 2007, lot 216.

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