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A SET OF EIGHT NORTH-ITALIAN ROYAL RESTAURATION STOOLS, carved by Giovan Battista Parodi gilded by Agostino Laviosa, Genoa,1821.Now in an important European private collection.

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Carlo Randoni ( 1755 - 1831 )

A SET OF EIGHT NORTH-ITALIAN ROYAL RESTAURATION STOOLS, carved by Giovan Battista Parodi gilded by Agostino Laviosa, Genoa,1821.Now in an important European private collection.


Genoa, 1820-1821
Carved Gilt Giltwood Ivory Lacca Walnut

Provenance

Grimaldi Doria Tursi palace, Savoy Royal Palace in Genoa, 1820-1821.
Pisa collection, Milan, 1937.
Anonymous European private collection.

Literature

Il mobile Impero in Italia, Enrico Colle, 1998, Milan, 260-261(concerning a sofa, six chairs and two open armchairs of the same suite now in the Napoleonic residence in Elba island)
Giuseppe Battista Piacenza e Carlo Randoni. I reali palazzi fra Torino e Genova. 1773-1831., Paolo Cornaglia, 2012, Turin, 227(with Randoni documents concerning the all suite).
Christopher Rowell and Wolf Burchard. Italian furniture at Attingham Park. Furniture history 2020, VOL VI, the journal of the furniture history society. Page 107-176. Figure 17,42,46 and 47).

Detail Description

In 1819 the Savoy Royal couple, Vittorio Emanuele I and Maria Tersa d'Asburgo Este bought the Grimaldi-Doria Tursi Palace as their principal Genoese royal residence, now it is the townhall of the city. As first architect of the court Carlo Randoni designed all the new furniture including these stools for the anti cappella room, they were probably executed in the two following years by the genoese sculptor Giovan Battista Parodi and gilded by Agostino Laviosa. Wolf Burchard of the Met discovered that the third Baron of Berwick, William Noel-Hill as English Ambassador at the Savoy Kingdom, in 1833 bought a large part of Doria Tursi interiors, including from the same suite two armchairs, five chairs and seven identical stools now in Park Attingham in Shropshire(NT608157)Surviving pieces of the same suite formerly part of Pisa collection until 1937 are another pair formerly in the New York market, a fantastic short bench that was in our stock, another similar and less interesting  pair of longer benches recently appeared in the London market, few armchairs and sofas  in the Napoleonic residence of villa dei mulini, porto ferraio, Elba island; one sofa still in the original Royal collections at Stupinigi royal castle,Museo dell'Ammobiliamento, sala dei cimeli napoleonici, Turin another sofa in the Fenice Opera theatre, Venice and few other pieces in the Italian embassy in Lisboa at the palazzo dei conti di Pombeiro.

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