AN ITALIAN GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIR

LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROMAN

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AN ITALIAN GREEN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIR
Late 18th Century, probably Roman
The rounded back and seat covered with polychrome floral damask, the seat with a squab cushion, the frame of the back carved with pearled motif and berried foliate moulding, centred by an acanthus spray, centred to the lower rail with a bucrane medallion, the scrolled arms with acanthus motif, the seat-rail with ribbon-tied laurel swags and on stop-fluted tapering turned legs with upswept acanthus and terminating in pine-cone sabot, largely repainted with traces of earlier decoration

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Related Roman armchairs, with restrained classical ornament and with similar pierced backs and carved masks, are illustrated in A. Gonzlez-Palacios, Fasto Romano, Rome, 1991, p. 183, fig. 132 (from the Fondazione Caetani), and A. Gonzlez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto: Roma e il Regno delle Due Sicilie, Milan, 1984, vol. II, p. 84, fig. 162. (from the collection of Sir Harold Acton, Florence).