Live Auction 7464Un hôtel particulier du Faubourg Saint-Germain The Collection of The Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel
A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN TERRACOTTA SEATS
Lot 393

A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN TERRACOTTA SEATS

BY A. RAGHI & BONI, MILAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 November 2007

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GBP 10,625

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN TERRACOTTA SEATS
BY A. RAGHI & BONI, MILAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each modelled as a cushioned and tassled stool, each with maker's stamp 'A. Raghi e Boni Milano', one restored
19 in. (48.5 cm.) high; (4)

Specialist note

An 1840s drawing for a related French-fashioned and squab-cushioned seat or 'pouf', appropriate for garden conservatories etc., features in the L. Simon catalogue in the Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs Paris (N. de Reyniès, Le mobilier domestique, Paris, 1987, vol. 1, p.57. no. 24).