LOMBARDY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NORTH ITALIAN EMPIRE PARCEL-GILT AND CREAM-PAINTED CANAPES
LOMBARDY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The top rails carved with rosettes above three gilt columns, the central one headed with a female mask, flanked on either side by ribbons and floral swags surrounding a central medallion, the seat rail carved with floral garlands above five tapering legs with acanthus and leaf-tips, on bun feet, upholstered in pale green and cream silk with floral wreaths and swags, the decoration refreshed
39 ½ in. (100 cm.) high; 61 1/8 in. (155 cm.) wide; 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably from a Milanese Royal palace.
Collection Pisa, Italy, until sold at auction, 'Raccolta Pisa', Milan, 1937.

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Lot Essay

This set of seat-furniture (lots 82-83) is part of a larger suite almost certainly from a Milanese Royal Palace. One sofa from the suite is now in the Royal Palace of Stupinigi, another at La Fenice Opera theatre in Venice, and a third example at the Villa napoleonica dei Mulini, Porto Ferraio, Elba island (illustrated in E. Colle, Il Mobile Impero In Italia, Milan, 1998, p. 260, pl. 83.). A larger divano and chairs from the same suite are illustrated in situ in U. Ojetti, Raccolta Pisa, 1937, vol. 2, pl. CCII.

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