AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD SOFA
Lot 142

AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD SOFA

ROME, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed4 December 2008

Price Realised

GBP 11,250

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD SOFA
ROME, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
En suite with the previous lot, the rope-twist, husk-carved and beaded pierced rectangular back with foliate clasp finial, centred by an oval padded medallion covered in white and light-blue trellis patterned horsehair, the curved arms with foliate-wrapped terminals and husk-carved supports, above a rope-twist-carved frieze centred by a foliate cartouche, on foliate-wrapped turned and stop-fluted tapering legs headed by rosette paterae and terminating in stiff-leaf carved gadrooned ball feet
40 in. (101.5 cm.) high; 66¼ in. (168 cm.) wide; 22½ in. (57 cm.) deep

Villa Borghese, Rome.

Specialist note

See note to previous lot.