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The Viceroy of Savoy Neoclassical armchairs.A pair of Italian carved walnut and pastiglia cream and brown painted armchairs
Filippo Castelli
The Viceroy of Savoy Neoclassical armchairs.A pair of Italian carved walnut and pastiglia cream and brown painted armchairs
Date Turin 1790 c
Medium Carved, Ivory, Lacca, Plaster, Walnut, Woods
Dimension 90 x 67 x 63 cm (35³/₈ x 26³/₈ x 24³/₄ inches)
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
Dimension: 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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