Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a Private Manhattan Collector

Carlo Bugatti

Pair of Throne Chairs

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Manhattan Collector

Carlo Bugatti

Pair of Throne Chairs


circa 1900

walnut, ebonized walnut, vellum, embossed copper, pewter

each signed Bugatti

66 x 31¼ x 26 (167.6 x 79.4 x 66 cm) each

Sotheby's New York, November 18, 1994, lot 412
Private Collection
Sotheby's New York, December 18, 2004, lot 604
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Philippe Dejean and Nadine Coleno, Carlo - Rembrandt - Ettore - Jean Bugatti, Nancy, 1981, p. 83 (for a period photograph of the model)
Marie-Madeleine Massé, Carlo Bugatti au Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2001, p. 98, pl. 8.57 (for a period photograph of the model)