A VENETIAN STAINED-WALNUT FAUTEUIL

IN THE MANNER OF ANDREA BRUSTOLON

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A VENETIAN STAINED-WALNUT FAUTEUIL
In the manner of Andrea Brustolon
The arched rectangular tapering back and seat covered in floral yellow damask and with foliate bronze nails to the edges, the double-scrolled arms headed by a draped naked youth supported by two blackamoors, on lion-paw monopodia with scrolled tops joined by a scrolling X-shaped stretcher with panelled sides and centred by a later urn-shaped finial, on a shaped plinth, the front legs on wooden castors
52 in. (132 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This armchair derives from works by Andrea Brustolon, the leading Venetian furniture designer of the late 17th Century. The blackamoors of the arm supports are reminiscent of those featured on an armchair now in Ca Rezzonico, Venice (S. Colombo, L'Arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, Turin, 1981, pl. 347), while the sleeping cherubs, carved at the junction of the arms and of the back, are identical to those on another armchair in the same collection (A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1986, vol. II, p. 344-5, n. 733).

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