A PAIR OF VENETIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF VENETIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
Mid-18th Century
Each upholstered à chassis, the cartouche-shaped padded back and serpentine seat covered in coral silk, the moulded seat back centred by a stylised shell, and decorated with flowers and foliage, above down-swept arms, on cabriole legs and stylised scrolled feet, redecorated, possibly with traces of earlier decoration, the seat-rail of one with printed label, 'ORLANDO PETRENI ARREDAMENTI ARTISTICI FIRENZE' (2)

Provenance

Orlando Petreni, Florence.

Lot Essay

Closely related Venetian armchairs are illustrated in S. Levy, Lacche Veneziani Settecentesche, Milan, 1967, vol. I, fig. 19 (collection of Pero Dini), and fig. 28 (collection of Tullio Silva), and in C. Santini, Mille Mobile Veneti, Modena, n.d., p. 222, fig. 465 (collection of Giorgio Cosarini).

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