SPAIN, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

This is one of a small group of eighteenth century chairs made after the Nasrid original. Two original examples are the chair in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Otto Kurz, " Folding Chairs and Koran stands", in R. Ettinghausen (ed.), Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, pp.299-314 esp.p.305), and that in the Alhambra, Granada (Arte Islamico en Granada, exhibition catalogue, Granada, 1995, no.188, pp.436-7). A third was sold in these Rooms 7 April 2011 lot 119. Beginning in the eighteenth century however, with the increase in popularity of all things Islamic, and the wide variety of items made commemorating the Alhambra, a number of copies of these chairs were made, continuing into the following century.