Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD, GILT-LEAD MOUNTED AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS SIDE CHAIRS
Lot 1003

A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD, GILT-LEAD MOUNTED AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS SIDE CHAIRS

SICILY, CIRCA 1780

Closed24 September 2020

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A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD, GILT-LEAD MOUNTED AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS SIDE CHAIRS
SICILY, CIRCA 1780
Each with an inset paneled toprail with central breakfront cypher table with the initials 'PPL', above a canted rectangular padded seatback and conforming seat above a paneled seatrail on rosette-headed square tapering legs with foliate capitals and feet

Possibly supplied for Don Francesco Ferdinando Gravina, Prince of Palagonia (1722-1789).
Subsequently purchased by the Earl of Derby, Derby House, London, circa 1910 from Lenygon.
The Earl of Derby, K. G., Derby House, London; Christie's, London, 26 July 1940, lot 84 (a suite of twenty chairs and four settees).
Mrs. Violet van der Elst, Grantham Castle, Lincs.; Christie's, London, 8 April 1948, lot 114 (a suite of eleven chairs and three settees).
With Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles.
Acquired from Russell McKinnon, Inc., Los Angeles, 1964.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.