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

Lot 635
23.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 820125
Lot 635 | A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILT-LEAD AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS-MOUNTED GILTWOOD CHAIRS
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$ 20 000 – 40 000
A PAIR OF SOUTH ITALIAN GILT-LEAD AND REVERSE-PAINTED GLASS-MOUNTED GILTWOOD CHAIRS

SICILY, CIRCA 1780

Each with a rectangular padded backrest within reverse etched borders simulating stone and minerals, the seat rails similarly decorated, on square tapered legs, covered in silk and metallic thread fabric of large flower blossoms, formerly with monogram to crest-rails, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

38 in. (97 cm.) high





Provenance

‌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).

Property of a New York Private Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 1990, lot 176 or 177.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.





Literature

A. González-Palacios, 'The Prince of Palagonia, Goethe and Glass Furniture,' Burlington Magazine, August 1971.

A. González-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1984, p. 384.



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