PROBABLY LUCCA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AND POSSIBLY AFTER A DESIGN BY LORENZO NOTTOLINI

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN BEECHWOOD PARCEL-EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS
PROBABLY LUCCA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AND POSSIBLY AFTER A DESIGN BY LORENZO NOTTOLINI
The scrolled backs centered with a panel of griffins flanking a lyre above a woven silk seat, the in-curved frame on square tapering legs, probably originally painted

Provenance

The Collection of Walter C. Pew; Christie's, New York, 6 March 1991, lot 82.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For a very similar giltwood chair originally probably delivered for Elisa Baciocchi, niece of Napoleon I, see A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile nei Secoli, Vol. III, Milan, 1969, p.63, fig. 89. For a slightly different version of the same chair of Lucca manufacture, see A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto,Toscana e L'Italia Settentrionale, Vol. I, Milan, 1986, p. 191, fig. 352. A design dating from circa 1820 by Lorenzo Nottolini for a chair with an equally exaggerated curved back is illustrated ibid. fig. 351.

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