A PAIR OF ITALIAN EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

CIRCA 1815

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
Circa 1815
Each with tablet crestrail centered by a stylized foliate motif above a padded back and seat, upholstered in green and white striped silk, the swan-form arm supports above a foliate-carved seatrail and animal monopodia legs (2)

Lot Essay

One of a pair of related armchairs from the Palazzo Reale in Modena with similar scrolled swan-form arm supports and paw feet is in the collection of the Quirinale, Rome, and is illustrated in A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale: I Mobili Italiani, Milan, 1996, p. 320, pl. 133.

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