A PAIR OF ITALIAN BAROQUE GILTWOOD THRONE ARMCHAIRS

FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF ITALIAN BAROQUE GILTWOOD THRONE ARMCHAIRS
First half 18th century
Each with an exuberant foliate-carved crestrail centering a caroutche covered with a cross and inscribed PAX above a shaped padded back and cushion covered in crimson and silvered floral cut-velvet flanked by downscrolled armrests over a similarly-carved seatrail, on flower-headed molded cabriole legs and scrolled toes, regilt, one chair with ink inscription ace e (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 21 March 1996, lot 117

Lot Essay

A related Sicilian throne chair with similar bold carving to the crest rail in the Museo Regionale Pepoli in Trapani is illustrated in M. Giarizzo and A. Rotolo, Mobili e Mobilieri nella Sicilia del Settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 71.