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    18 February 2007

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    • AN ITALIAN EMPIRE CARVED GILTW
    Lot 215

    AN ITALIAN EMPIRE CARVED GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIR

    ATTRIBUTED TO LORENZO SANTI (D.1839), FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 2,160

    Estimate

    GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

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    AN ITALIAN EMPIRE CARVED GILTWOOD SIDE CHAIR
    Attributed to Lorenzo Santi (d.1839), first quarter 19th century
    With a pedimented top rail with griffins and undulating S-scroll frieze with flowerheads, the gros point needlework padded panel with a lion's mask and acanthus scrolls and flanked by foliate headed fluted stiles, with a similarly upholstered padded seat and fluted apron on monopodia supports terminating in paw feet,with batten carrying-holes to the underside,with incised 'V' and written in ink on the seat rails 'S'.
    Width of front seat rail 22½in. (57cm.); height to top of back 40½in. (103cm.)

    Provenance

    Almost certainly commissioned by Cardinal Fesch (d.1839) in Rome, uncle of Napoleon I; moved to his house in the Rue de Mont Blanc, Paris, circa 1806; probably amongst those sold in Paris, 17 June 1816, either lots 445 or 446.
    Probably bought by William Beckford, Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, sold Phillip's house sale, 9 September and following days until end of October, 1823, lots 1534-40.
    Sir Frederick Lewis, 1st Baron Essendon (1870-1944), Essendon Court, Essendon, Hertfordshire
    Ella Mary, Countess of Powis (d.1988), daughter of Col. W.H. Rathborne of Scripplestown, Co. Dublin and widow of Edward Herbert, 5th Earl of Powis (d.1974), by whom given to the present owners circa 1960.

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