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 GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS

VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN GILTWOOD ARMCHAIRS
VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with a cartouche-shaped padded back and drop-in seat covered in cream cotton, the pierced crest-rail with foliate trails above the out-scrolled arms with rocaille motif and above the conforming seat-rail and deeply scrolling cabriole legs terminating in foliate feet, variously numbered, gilding refreshed (4)

Lot Essay

These impressive armchairs typify the opulence of Venetian chair-making. Venetian armchairs of similar scale and shape are illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1964, vol. I, figs. 5 and 12, while a closely related armchair in the Museo Civico, Milan, is illustrated in W. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, New York, 1967, vol. II, p. 187, fig. 224.

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