A PAIR OF CARVED GILTWOOD AND RED VELVET UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIRS , MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONTESE

Sale 4960

European Furniture, Works of Arts, Tapestries and Carpets

London, South Kensington

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12 September 2006

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Lot 161

A PAIR OF CARVED GILTWOOD AND RED VELVET UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIRS

MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONTESE

Price realised

GBP 5,400

Estimate

GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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A PAIR OF CARVED GILTWOOD AND RED VELVET UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIRS
MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONTESE
Pierced and foliate carved throughout, the deep buttoned padded back with a fan and S-scroll top rail and with shuttered panelled stiles and with scrolled foliate carved and padded arms, a drop in seat with bowed fluted and C-scroll carved rails, on tapering foliate and spiral carved legs headed by lion mask and rosette blocks (2)

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1993, lot 309.
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Lot Essay

These chairs bear similarities to the designs of the Bolognese architect Pelagio Palagi (1775-1860), who designed the furnishings of the Palazzo Reale, Turin, for the Savoia family. See Luisa Bandera Gregori Filippo Pelagio Palagi An artist between Neo-Classicism and Romanticism, Apollo, May 1973, p.500-509.

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Lot 161

A PAIR OF CARVED GILTWOOD AND RED VELVET UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIRS

MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PIEDMONTESE

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