EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ITALIAN

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIRS
EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ITALIAN
Each of the arched rectangular padded backs and seats covered in red and gold foliate silk damask, on square baluster legs carved with foliate scroll, on a trellis ground, joined by serpentine stretchers and an arched stretcher, on square gadrooned pinched feet, regilt, some rerailing, the back possibly reshaped (2)

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拍品专文

The chairs, with taper-hermed and acanthus-wreathed legs, are designed in the Louis XIV Roman fashion popularised by the Paris-trained architect Daniel Marot (d.1752) and featured in table-patterns in his, Nouveaux Livre dOrfevrerie, c.1700.