LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ITALIAN

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A PAIR OF WROUGHT IRON AND BRASS FALDISTORIO
LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ITALIAN
Each with lobed ball finials on brass stems joined by similar stretchers, the X-frame supports decorated with punched stellar motifs and with rosette roundels (2)

Provenance

By repute, Lois Sturt, actress, daughter of Humphrey Napier Sturt and Lady Feodorowna Yorke, and later Viscountess Tredegar (d.1937).
Philip Hepworth, architect.

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Lot Essay

By repute, these stools were loaned to Westminster Cathedral for the enthronement of Archbishop John Heenan, and a similar example remains at Westminster Cathedral. A stool of very similar design, from The Collection of the late Henk Nieboer, removed from Schloss Herblingen, sold Christie's, London, 28 June, 2000, lot 665.

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