PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF TARA COLBURN TO BE SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF LOS ANGELES OPERA AND OTHER CHARITIES (Lots 123-130 and 158)

A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIRS

GENOA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN WALNUT ARMCHAIRS
GENOA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Carved overall with lappeted and ribbon-twist bands, each with padded back and drop-in seat covered in striped cream silk, the raised toprail with ribbon bow, the arms with laurel leaves above the seat with outset corners on fluted turned tapering legs with foliate caps on toupie feet, replacements to toupie feet, variously numbered, later blocks (4)

Lot Essay

The carving of these Genoese armchairs, the arms wrapped with acanthus and laurel leaves, is unusually fine. One of a pair of identical armchairs, possibly from the same set, is illustrated in M. Agnelli, ed., Mobili Italiani del Settecento, Milan, 1990, p. 140. a side chair formerly at Palazzo Serra, Genoa, featuring similar laurel-leaf carving, is illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Mobile in Liguria, Genoa, 1996, p. 315, fig. 370.

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