Lot 261
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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED THRONE ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1775, POSSIBLY TURIN

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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED THRONE ARMCHAIR
Circa 1775, possibly Turin
The oval padded back and bowed seat covered in pale blue ribbed silk within a frame crisply carved with flowerheads centering a foliate clasp, with downscrolled arm rests above turned fluted column uprights above a similarly carved seatrail, on tapering fluted legs with gadrooned collar

Lot Essay

The crisply carved fine-scale detailing of this remarkable throne chair relates it to the work of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo (1745-1829), ebanista reale to the court of Turin. An armchair supplied by Bonzanigo to the Principessa di Piemonte in the Palazzo Reale, Turin
with similar jewel-like carving and architectural treatment of the legs, is illustrated in G. Ferraris, Giuseppe Maria Bozanigo, 1991, p. 68, fig.XXIX.