GENOA OR PIEDMONT, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
Genoa or Piedmont, early 18th century
Each with rectangular back and seat covered in 18th Century crimson silk damask, the scrolled arms carved with trailing husks and on volute supports, the square-section baluster legs joined by waved stretchers, restorations to the rails (2)

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Please note these armchairs should be dated early 18th Century.

Lot Essay

This model of armchair seems to have been produced in both Piedmont and Liguria. Related armchairs attributed to Piedmont, with the same distinctive mouldings to the arms and stretchers, are in the Museo Civico d'Arte in Turin (illustrated in L. Mallé, Mobili e Arredi Lignei, Turin. 1972, figs. 188 and 190), while other armchairs of the same model and formerly in the Castello di Arenzano (illustrated in A. González-Palacios, II Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, fig. 149) are attributed to Liguria.

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