CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY GENOA

Details

A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD TABOURETS
CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY GENOA
Each with a square seat with 18th century silk gros and petit point embroidery, probably the original covers, with a central foliate spray flanked by pheasants and doves, above the shaped apron with a central scallop-shell flanked by foliate scrolls, on cabriole legs headed by scallop-shells and terminating in scroll-feet with palmette motif, the underside numbered in pencil '7190', probably regilt
19½ in. (50 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) square (2)

Provenance

with Dalva Brothers, New York.

Lot Essay

A stool with identical scallop-shell flanked by foliage to the seat-rail and the legs headed by a similar palmette and husk-trails from the collection of 'La Princesse de X.', was sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, Monaco, 24 25 June 1984, lot 3211.

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