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A SUITE OF ITALIAN ROCOCO PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED SEAT FURNITURE
MID-18TH CENTURY, VENETIAN
Comprising a settee, a pair of armchairs and a pair of side chairs, each with cartouche-shaped padded back, scroll arms and seat within a scrolling foliate frame carved with plumed scallop motifs, on cabriole legs headed by shells ending in acanthus-carved scroll toes, upholstered in champagne floral silk, the settee-63in. (158cm.) wide
A closely related armchair with similarly carved decoration is illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, 1964, vol. I, fig. 5; other examples are illustrated in G. Morazoni, Mobili Veneziani Laccati, n.d., vol. I, pl. LV, nos. 1 and 2. (5)
MID-18TH CENTURY, VENETIAN
Comprising a settee, a pair of armchairs and a pair of side chairs, each with cartouche-shaped padded back, scroll arms and seat within a scrolling foliate frame carved with plumed scallop motifs, on cabriole legs headed by shells ending in acanthus-carved scroll toes, upholstered in champagne floral silk, the settee-63in. (158cm.) wide
A closely related armchair with similarly carved decoration is illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, 1964, vol. I, fig. 5; other examples are illustrated in G. Morazoni, Mobili Veneziani Laccati, n.d., vol. I, pl. LV, nos. 1 and 2. (5)