Lot Essay
Related models of 18th Century Japanned venetian seat furniture with, however, interlaced splat backs are illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento Novara, 1996, vol.I, pl. 38 and 92.
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19TH CENTURY
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A SET OF VENETIAN GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED SEAT FURNITURE
19th Century
Comprising a pair of armchairs and a pair of side chairs, decorated
with floral sprays, the splats painted with figures from the
Commedia dell'Arte, each with a shaped and pierced splat and bow-fronted caned seat, the armchairs with outscrolled arms, and on cabriole legs terminating in a scroll, partly redecorated, the figures on the splats later, one armchair with caning distressed, the side chairs with red-painted inventory numbers to the underside '79.329A' and '79.329B' respectively, the armchairs with inventory numbers '79.329C' and '79.329D' respectively
42 in. (107 cm.) high (4)
19th Century
Comprising a pair of armchairs and a pair of side chairs, decorated
with floral sprays, the splats painted with figures from the
Commedia dell'Arte, each with a shaped and pierced splat and bow-fronted caned seat, the armchairs with outscrolled arms, and on cabriole legs terminating in a scroll, partly redecorated, the figures on the splats later, one armchair with caning distressed, the side chairs with red-painted inventory numbers to the underside '79.329A' and '79.329B' respectively, the armchairs with inventory numbers '79.329C' and '79.329D' respectively
42 in. (107 cm.) high (4)