A SPANISH GILT-CHESTNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1740

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A SPANISH GILT-CHESTNUT OPEN ARMCHAIR
Circa 1740
The shaped padded back and seat covered in red velvet, the top-rail with cabochon and coronet, above scrolled arms and a waved rocaille seat on cabriole legs joined by a waved X-shaped stretcher and on scrolling foliate feet, with label to seat-rail inscribed 'no. 27 fauteuil ... rond 110,-', left back foot with restored break, losses to gilting

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The chair frame's profusely carved asymmetrical frame recalls the rich character of furniture supplied to the Spanish royal palaces after the accession of Carlos III, formerly Carlos VII of Naples, who brought with him an appreciation of decorative styles from the French and Italian royal courts. A console table similarly rendered, particularly in the design of the stretchers, from the Palace of Perelada, Gerona, is illustrated in L. Feduchi, Spanish Furniture, New York, 1969, p.176, fig.152. A pair of throne chairs of slightly less exuberant form in the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Madrid is illustrated in J. Hernández Ferrero, The Royal Palaces of Spain, 1997, p. 147.