Details
Each with a scrolled padded back, the crestrails carved as fasces and the padded arms supported by lion monopodia, on rosette-headed and lotus-carved fluted tapering legs at the front and fluted sabre legs at the back, upholstered in green and yellow twill
3612 in. (93 cm.) high
Provenance
Property of a Gentleman; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 2002, lot 379 (as a set of four).
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Lot Essay

A connection has been posited between the present armchairs and the work of Paolo Sani, supplier of chairs to the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. For a chair of closely similar profile by his hand, see E. Colle, Il Mobile Impero in Italia, Milan, 1998, p. 171, no. 53. A suite of six similar chairs in the Palazzo Pitti collection is illustrated in E. Colle, Museum Catalogue, Il Mobili di Palazzo Pitti: Il Secondo Periodo Lorense, 1800-1846, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 2000, p. 265, no. 178.

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