Beschreibung:

A NORTH ITALIAN GILTMETAL-MOUNTED GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL LATE 18TH CENTURY The panelled frame carved overall with blind geometric banding with flowerheads and with beaded bands, the toprail centred by a panelled tablet flanked by scrolls, with two confronting griffins centred by a lotus bud, the back with Apollo's mask within a sunburst to the spandrels and with octagonal padding, the back, arms and seat covered in red velvet, the arms with geometric scrolls on acanthus and imbricated uprights terminating in an eagles's head, the back supported by a Greek maiden issuing from acanthus scrolls, the seat-rail with further Apollo's masks to the angles, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by a gadrooned and acanthus capital, probably Piedmontese