ROME, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF SIX ITALIAN BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT ARMCHAIRS
Rome, mid-18th Century
Each with shaped moulded rectangular padded back, arms and seat covered in yellow silk, the toprail and seat-rail centred by foliate scrolling rockwork flanked by down-swepped arcanthus leaves, the slightly outcurved channelled arms, decorated with cabochons, on cabriole legs with scrolling feet, two upholstered with squab cushions, an earlier layer of blue-decoration visible, the gilding possibly original with areas of restoration, two chairs with remains of label 'NATURAL, LE COULTRE, GENEVE [...] DEMENAGENTS GARDE-MEUBLES' (6)

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Lot Essay

The restrained rococo carving and imposing form of these armchairs relates them to other Roman armchairs in the Instituto Romano di San Michele and the collections of Principe Don Livio Odescalchi and Marchese Patrizio Patrizi Naro Montoro, illustrated in G. Lizzani, Il Mobile Romano, Milan, 1970, pp. 102-4, figs. 175 and 178-180.

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