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Italian Antique Furniture
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Item No. 1127
Renaissance period coffret (document box)
Of rectangular form, in solid walnut, having carved floret-framed paneled sides and the façade with carvings of maps and telescopes, the whole resting atop four paw feet.
Early 17th century. Florence.
19" wide by 11½" high by 11½" deep
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Item No. 1036
Pair of very fine, Italian, Empire period curule seats
In solid, carved giltwood. First quarter of the 19th century.
The curule seat was first used by the Ancient Romans to denote political or military power. It was adopted by later European rulers, including Napoléon Bonaparte.
38" wide by 21" deep by 29" high
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Item No. 1067
Fine, Northern Italian, painted and parcel gilded table de milieu
With marble top having outset corners above a scrolling foliate-carved frieze (en arabesque), with female masks at the corners, the whole atop tapering, stop-fluted legs terminating in lion's paw feet. Circa 1780.
33¼" high by 51½" wide by 28¼" deep
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Item No. 999
Pair of very fine, Venetian, Rococo period tall-back armchairs
Each cartouche-shaped backrest with pierced foliate carved top rail, the downswept scrolled armrests, above the serpentine-fronted seat above a pierced apron, raised on cabriole legs with scrolled toes; upholstered à chassis. Circa 1730. Regilt.
48" tall (at back), 18½" tall (at seat) by 27" wide x 21½" deep
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Item No. 836
Important, Italian, Renaissance period, giltwood and pastiglia cassone
The arched top decorated and star-shaped motif centered by a coat-of-arms, above a rectangular body decorated in pastiglia with figures in procession, the sides with similar star-shaped motif on bracket legs. Circa 1430, with restorations.
Provenance: Formerly part of the collection of Émile Gavet (1830-1904), Paris; sold to William K. Vanderbilt and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933) at Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island; possibly later conveyed to John Ringling (1866-1936) in Sarasota, Florida.
29½" high by 71½" wide by 23¼" deep
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