A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD, GILT-LEAD MOUNTED AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS SIDE CHAIRS

Provenance

Possibly supplied for Don Francesco Ferdinando Gravina, Prince of Palagonia (1722-1789).
Subsequently purchased by the Earl of Derby, Derby House, London, circa 1910 from Lenygon.
The Earl of Derby, K. G., Derby House, London; Christie's, London, 26 July 1940, lot 84 (a suite of twenty chairs and four settees).
Mrs. Violet van der Elst, Grantham Castle, Lincs.; Christie's, London, 8 April 1948, lot 114 (a suite of eleven chairs and three settees).
With Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles.
Acquired from Russell McKinnon, Inc., Los Angeles, 1964.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.