A PAIR OF TUSCAN WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF TUSCAN WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
Each with rectangular back, seat and skirt covered in associated 17th Century Brussels tapestry woven in wools, silks and metal-thread, depicting to the back a crowned maiden holding a flaming heart and to the seat two youths holding a basket of fruits, the uprights headed by a grotesque mask and the moulded rectangular arms on baluster supports above square legs joined to the sides by moulded stretchers, one foot tipped, basically late 17th Century, restorations (2)

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A pair of walnut side chairs and an armchair from Bologna of nearly identical shape and retaining their original silk needlework upholstery are in the Museo Civico d'Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini, Bologna (M. Medica, ed., 'Museo Civico d'Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini', catalogue, Bologna, 1987, p. 185, cat. 121) while a further closely related Florentine walnut armchair of the mid-17th Century is in the church of Santa Felicita, Florence (A.M. Massinelli, Il Mobile Toscano, Milano, 1993, p. 166, fig. LVII). A closely related set of four armchairs, from the property of Mrs. Ambrose Congreve, Winkworth Manor, Ascot, Berkshire, was sold in these Rooms, 30 May 1968, lot 118.

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