A PAIR OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN SILVERED AND CREAM-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 268

A PAIR OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN SILVERED AND CREAM-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS

GERMAN OR NORTHERN ITALIAN, CIRCA 1780

Closed24 April 2013

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USD 8,125

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A PAIR OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN SILVERED AND CREAM-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS
GERMAN OR NORTHERN ITALIAN, CIRCA 1780
Each with oval back and shaped drop-in seat covered in pale mustard velvet, the back and seatrail carved with foliate garlands, the decoration refreshed (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 October 2006, lot 370.

Specialist note

Although the chairs relate to North Italian examples, their form and decoration relates equally to German chairs such as an armchair by Heinrich Hennemann at Schloss Aschaffenberg and another chair by Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper in the Landesmuseum Münster (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst Die Deutschen Möbels, Vol III, figs. 99 and 164.