VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NORTH-ITALIAN WALNUT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with shaped rectangular pierced back with vase-shaped splat and pierced cresting above scrolling arms, the caned bow-fronted seat and waved seatrail carved with acanthus sprays and pounced reserves, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus leaves and terminating in scrolled sabots, with red and yellow squab cushions (2)

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 17-18 March 1978, lot 145.

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Lot Essay

The present Venetian armchairs are embellished with a very attractive and unusually elaborate carving; most of the related armchairs unintended to be painted show a much sober carved decoration. Among the few examples with an extensive decoration, an armchair is illustrated in S. Levy, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1964, pl.I and a pair is illustrated in C. Alberici, Il Mobile Veneto, Milan, 1980, pl.380.

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