Details
A MATCHED SET OF SIX ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STYLE WALNUT SGABELLI
Four surmounted by a plumed grotesque mask above a foliate-carved scroll crestrail and pierced tapering back carved with female terms, the square seat with chip-carved frieze above trestle supports carved with a grotesque mask flanked by female terms and centrally carved with a shield enclosing a dolfin, together with a pair of closely related sgabelli (6)
Four surmounted by a plumed grotesque mask above a foliate-carved scroll crestrail and pierced tapering back carved with female terms, the square seat with chip-carved frieze above trestle supports carved with a grotesque mask flanked by female terms and centrally carved with a shield enclosing a dolfin, together with a pair of closely related sgabelli (6)
Provenance
The late Henry Harris, Esq., sold Sotheby's London, 27 October 1950, lot 118
Literature
J. Pope-Hennessy, Learning to Look, New York and London, 1991, p. 312