AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE GILTWOOD STOOL
AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE GILTWOOD STOOL

POSSIBLY ROME, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE GILTWOOD STOOL
Possibly Rome, Late 16th Century
The rectangular padded seat covered in tasseled crimson velvet above a trestle support carved to the front with scrolling foliage and with similar incised decoration to the inside of the rear support, joined by a baluster-turned stretcher, on lion's paw feet, with stencilled inventory number ...5712
17in. (44.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

A stool of similar form with scrolled trestle support and lion's paw feet from the Bardini Collection, Florence, is illustrated in W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, New York, 1966, vol. II, p.337, fig. 333.

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