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A VENETIAN POLYCHROME DECORATED TURTLE-FORM CHAIR
Lot 275PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MORTON SWINSKY (LOTS 275-276)

A VENETIAN POLYCHROME DECORATED TURTLE-FORM CHAIR

ATTRIBUTED TO PAULY ET CIE., LATE 19TH CENTURY

Fermé20 October 2011

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A VENETIAN POLYCHROME DECORATED TURTLE-FORM CHAIR
ATTRIBUTED TO PAULY ET CIE., LATE 19TH CENTURY
With a hinged back forming a blue silk upholstered seat, on a rockwork base with shells and starfish
Closed: 22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high, Open: 38 in. (96.5 cm.) high

Christie's, South Kensington, 13 May 2008, lot 520.

Note du spécialiste

These whimsical chairs epitomize the Venetian tradition of 'grotto' furniture-making, so named among the European nobility who erected shell-encrusted pavilions and grottos during the 18th and 19th centuries. By the mid-19th century a number of workshops specialized in the production of carved and gilt-gesso shell furniture in Venice, the firms of Pauly et Cie. and Remi & Ci. being among the leading manufacturers by the 1880s.

A comparable chair formed as a crab was sold at Christie's, London, 24 September 2008, lot 27 (£11,875). Another example of a turtle-form seat is illustrated in D. Linley, Extraordinary Furniture, London, 1996, p. 166.