Lot 537
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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIRS
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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIRS

LATE 17TH CENTURY, GENOA OR TURIN

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIRS
Late 17th Century, Genoa or Turin
Each with an arched padded back and seat covered in gros and petit point needlework, with figures, animals and birds surrounded by foliage, with moulded frames, the scrolled arms on serpentine suppports, on scrolled legs joined by a scrolled serpentine H-shaped stretcher, the needlework is contemporary with the chairs and probably their original upholstery, with restorations (2)
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Lot Essay

This model of armchair seems to have been produced in both Piedmont and Liguria. Two closely related armchairs attributed to Piedmont, with the same distinctive mouldings to the arms and legs and upholstered in similar richly worked gros point needlework, are in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin (illustrated in L. Malle, Mobili e Arredi Lignei, Turin, 1972, figs. 188 and 190). Other armchairs of the same model from Liguria are in the Palazzo del Principe, Genoa (illustrated in E. Colle, Il Mobile Barocco in Italia, Milan, 2000, p. 228) and formerly in the Castello di Arenzano (illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, fig. 149).

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