拍品 119
119
AN IBERIAN ROCOCO RED-PAINTED AND GILT-VARNISHED SILVERED (MECCA) ARMCHAIR
AN IBERIAN ROCOCO RED-PAINTED AND GILT-VARNISHED SILVERED (MECCA) ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1750

細節
AN IBERIAN ROCOCO RED-PAINTED AND GILT-VARNISHED SILVERED (MECCA) ARMCHAIR
Circa 1750
The intricately-carved scrolled-rocaille padded back and seat upholstered à chassis with pink silk damask woven with a flowering basket, flanked by downcruved scrolled arms with volute handrests, on cabriole legs, each headed by a shell and carved on the knee with a flowerhead, flanking asymmetrical scrolled-rocaille stretchers

拍品專文

Another armchair with shaped arched toprail surmounted by a rocaille shell above a cartouche upholstered back, and with similar scrolled arms and deeply cabriole legs from the Palacio de Benamejì, Santillana del Mar (Santander), is illustrated in L. Feduchi, El Mueble Espanol, 1969, p. 156, fig. 132.