A PORTUGUESE SOLID MAHOGANY QUADRUPLE CHAIRBACK SETTEE

MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A PORTUGUESE SOLID MAHOGANY QUADRUPLE CHAIRBACK SETTEE
MID-18TH CENTURY
With four pierced interlaced splats above a red damask upholstered slip seat and scalloped apron on cabriole legs joined by wavy stretchers and ending in claw-and-ball feet, replacements to stretchers
85 in. (216 cmm.) long

Provenance

Bought from Bernheimer, Munich, in 1964.

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Lot Essay

Portugual's colonial empire provided an almost inexhaustible supply of exotic hardwoods which they frequently used in solid form instead of relying upon the more cost effective veneers. Two related settees are illustrated in F.Castro Freire, Mobilario Museu-Escola de Artes Decorativas Portuguesas, vol 1, Lisbon, 2001, inv. 24 and 660.

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