LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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TWO SPANISH WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT ARMCHAIRS
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each back and seat covered in kilim, with acanthus-carved finials, one on turned supports and a sledge base terminating in lion's paw feet, the other with scrolled arms on square supports joined by pierced stretchers
One 54 in. (137 cm.) high; 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep; the other 52 ¾ in. (134 cm.) high; 24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

One armchair appears in Claudio Bravo's painting El Sirviente, 1988 and the other in La Chilaba Amarilla, 1990 and Annunciacion (vanitas), 1992, offered at Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 2009, lot 56 (P. Bowels and M. Vargas Llosa, Claudio Bravo Pinturas y Dibujos, Madrid, 1996, pp. 165 & 174).

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