Description & Technical information
Now with a green silk upholstery, each with a square tapering drop-in padded back within a molded frame, the top-rail surmounted by a flower motif between two crouching squirrel and classical foliage, the padded arms terminating in lion masks, above a bowed padded drop-in seat, the seat-rail carved with a vase motif, on fluted tapering legs carved with foliage and anthemions.
Date: Turin 1790 c
Medium: Carved, Ivory, Lacca, Plaster, Walnut, Woods
Dimensions: 90 x 67 x 63 cm (35³/₈ x 26³/₈ x 24³/₄ inches)
Provenance: Castello di Masino, Caravino, Turin.
Private collection UK
Literature: R. Antonetto, Il Mobile Piemontese nel Settecento, vol. II, p. 159, no. 33;
V.Viale, Exhibition of Piedmontese Baroque, 1961, pl.178b.
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