AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT AND BROWN-PAINTED KLISMOS SIDE CHAIR

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT AND BROWN-PAINTED KLISMOS SIDE CHAIR
early 19th century
The C-shaped crestrail above an open back with incurved uprights and a bowed seat covered in close-nailed red velvet above a greek-key carved seatrail on sabre legs headed by ram's heads ending in hoof feet

Lot Essay

cf. A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto: La Toscana e L'Italia, Settentrionale, Milan, 1986, Vol. II, p.193, fig. 360, for a design by L.-A Masreliez (1748-1810) of a closely related klismos chair with similar ram's head legs, now in the National Museum, Stockholm.

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