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Lot Essay
The design for this chair is after that for a set of ten documented giltwood chairs, carved by Lucio Landucci, in 1789 for the Villa Borghese in Rome. Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios brings to light the existence of this female craftswoman in Il Gusto del Principi, Milan, 1993, Vol I, page 242, and he illustrates the chair in question in Vol.II, page 238, pl. 475.
G. Lizzani Il Mobile Romano, Milan, 1970, also illustrates the Borghese chair (pl. 173, page 102) together with another similar but more provincial painted and parcel gilt example in the Palazzo Braschi Collection, Rome (pl. 174, page 102).
A fine suite of carved giltwood seat furniture after the Villa Borghese model in Rome, was sold at Sotheby's, London, in a sale of Highly Important Continental Furniture from the Collection of Count Volpi di Misurata on 16 December 1998, lot 59.
G. Lizzani Il Mobile Romano, Milan, 1970, also illustrates the Borghese chair (pl. 173, page 102) together with another similar but more provincial painted and parcel gilt example in the Palazzo Braschi Collection, Rome (pl. 174, page 102).
A fine suite of carved giltwood seat furniture after the Villa Borghese model in Rome, was sold at Sotheby's, London, in a sale of Highly Important Continental Furniture from the Collection of Count Volpi di Misurata on 16 December 1998, lot 59.