A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT STOOL

LATE 18TH CENTURY, PIEDMONT

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A NORTH ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT STOOL
Late 18th Century, Piedmont
The blue cotton and silk covered drop-in seat on a frieze of ribbon tied laurel leaves, raised on paterae-headed and acanthus carved tapering stop-fluted legs, redecorated
20in. (59cm.) high, 19¾in. (50cm.) wide, 19¾in. (50cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied for the Palazzo Reale, Turin.

Lot Essay

This stool is virtually identical to a set of six stools, which together with a matching suite comprising a settee, a pair of armchairs, and a set of four sidechairs, are in the apartments of Queen Maria Antonia (d. 1785), wife of Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia (d. 1796), in the Palazzo Reale, Turin. (See V. Viale, Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, vol. III, Turin, 1963, tav. 202.)

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