A pair of Italian carved walnut banquettes, Venetian second quarter 18th Century

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8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Description

Walnut
each: 94cm. high, 114cm. wide, 52cm. deep; 3ft. 1in., 3ft. 8¾in., 1ft. 8½in.

each with a pierced scrolled back carved with rocaille, above downscrolled arms and rectangular padded seat, on five cabriole legs terminating in scrolled feet joined by waved stretchers, with the ink inscribed paper label with the number 699

Provenance

Collection Ing. Giuseppe Gatti-Casazza (n. 93/4 & n. 94/4), Venice; probably originally from a set of four.

Literature

Giuseppe Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del'700, ed. Görlich, Milan, 1958, Vol. I, illustrated fig. XCVIII (b).