An Italian carved and giltwood and polychrome decorated sedan chair, with painted panels attributed to Giacinto Diano (1730 -1803), Naples, 18th century
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September 26, 10:53 AM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
banded overall with Rococo scrolls and flowers, the domed silk velvet-lined roof with pierced repoussé foliate mounts, above a red foliate silk-velvet damask-lined interior with tasselled fringing, the panels painted with classical vignettes of sporting putti framed by scrolling flower and foliage.
180 x 88 x 110 cm; 71 by 34½ by 43¼ in.
Alberto Pucci di Benesichi Collection, Sicily;
Wannenes Genoa, 7-8-9 November 2012, lot 1216.
Some of Neapolitan sedan chairs are preserved in permanent museum collections, such as the one attributed to Giacinto Diano (1731-1804) at the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia. Others have appeared on the art market, including one sold at Sotheby's London, with mythological scenes attributed to Francesco de Mura 1 and another at Christie's London, with painted panels attributed to Giacinto Diano (1730-1803)2.
1 Sotheby's London, 16 October 1996, lot 172.
2 Christie's London, 5 June 2001, lot 10.
RELATED LITERATURE
G. Morazzoni, Il Settecento Italiano, Milan-Rome, 1932, p. 27.
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