Open armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Walnut and velvet
Measurements
96 x 69 x 50 cm
Place of origin
Italy
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446496
Summary
A pair of walnut open armchairs, Italian, circa 1880, profusely and boldly carved, each with applique red velvet back and seat, the arms carved with overlapping rosettes, headed with grotesque masks and terminating in a scroll, the legs formed of C-scrolls carved with upward-looking faces and with a central mask just below the seat, unusually carved right round onto the back surfaces of the chair.