CIRCA 1700, PIEDMONT

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN BAROQUE GILT-WALNUT TABOURETS
Circa 1700, Piedmont
Each with padded rectangular seat covered in crimson and yellow patterned close-nailed silk, on shell-carved tapering baluster legs headed by floral collars, joined by a scrolling foliate X-form stretcher, on scrolled feet, regilt
20½in. (52cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Probably part of a set of eight stools sold from the collection of Sir John FitzGerald, Bt., MC Knight of Kerry, Christie's London, 8 December 1949, lot 101, and 24 November 1955, lot 43.

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 155 (£24,150).

Lot Essay

A pair of tabourets almost certainly from the same set sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 21 October 1997, lot 6, and a further single tabouret probably also from the same set was sold Christie's London, 7 December 1989, lot 115.

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