Provenance

Castello di Masino, Caravino, Turin.
Private collection UK

Literature

R. Antonetto, Il Mobile Piemontese nel Settecento, vol. II, p. 159, no. 33;
V.Viale, Exhibition of Piedmontese Baroque, 1961, pl.178b.

Detail Description

Now with a green silk upholstery, each with a square tapering drop-in padded back within a molded frame, the top-rail surmounted by a flower motif between two crouching squirrel and classical foliage, the padded arms terminating in lion masks, above a bowed padded drop-in seat, the seat-rail carved with a vase motif, on fluted tapering legs carved with foliage and anthemions.