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Lot 830 Dα

Four Italian Neoclassical chairs

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
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Four Italian Neoclassical chairs

Carved and gilded softwood chairs with replaced textile covers and floral carving. Older repairs and retouches. H 90, seat depth 43 cm.
Southern Italy, design attributed to Carlo Vanvitelli (1739 – 1831), late 18th C.

Carlo Vanvitelli (1739 – 1821) was a proponent of the style typical during the transitional period between Baroque and Classicism in Italy. Employed on the construction site of the royal palace of Caserta, he suceeded his father as site director and worked on the decorations of the Old Apartments. These chairs may have been designed during this period.

Provenance

Private collection, Rome.

Literature

Cf. Colle, Il mobile neoclassico in Italia. Arredi e decorazioni d'interni dal 1775 al 1800, Milan 2005, no. 18, p. 96 f., therein also a design sketch for the chairs by Carlo Vanvitelli.