A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
Late 19th Century
Each with tablet toprial with carved foliate panel, above a padded back and cushion covered in yellow striped and floral material flanked by arms in the form of swans, above foliate panel seat rails, on turned, incurved foliate-wrapped legs and on paw feet, the feet with metalplates, the rails re-supported
41½ in. (105.5 cm.) high; 33 in. (84 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep (4)

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Please note the detail illustrated with this lot is of lot 101, the pair of settees

Lot Essay

A pattern for swan-armed seat furniture, as invented around 1800 by the French architect Charles Percier, featured in Domenico Moglia'’s Collezione di oggetti ornamentali architettonici, Milan 1837. It also features on scroll-pedimented banquettes made for Carlo Alberto (d. 1849), King of Sardinia, in the Palazzo Reale, Genoa (A. M. C. Filomarino, L'ottocento: I Mobili del Tempo dei Nonni, p. 56, figs. 28 and 78).

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