Filippo Castelli - The Viceroy of Savoy Neoclassical armchairs.A pair of Italian carved walnut and pastiglia cream and brown painted armchairs

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The Viceroy of Savoy Neoclassical armchairs.A pair of Italian carved walnut and pastiglia cream and brown painted armchairs

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Filippo Castelli

The Viceroy of Savoy Neoclassical armchairs.A pair of Italian carved walnut and pastiglia cream and brown painted armchairs

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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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Decorative Arts, from Antiquities to XIX Century, focusing in particular on Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Textiles, Glass, Ceramics and Bronzes.

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